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Quiz
- Which South African born actor's profile was raised in the radio series Hancock's Half Hour?
- Who co-created The Goon Show but appeared in only the first 38 shows?
- ITMA was a BBC radio comedy programme which ran for twelve series from 1939 to 1949. What does the acronym stand for?
- Which radio sitcom's last line was: "There's one thing that won't change – I shall always worry about Jim..."?
- Who appeared in radio sitcom comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne but is best known for his performances in Carry On films?
- The Archers is set in which fictional village?
- Which radio sitcom starred Benedict Cumberbatch and followed the exploits of the eccentric crew of the one aeroplane owned by "MJN Air"?
- Which science fiction comedy radio series primarily written by Douglas Adams was originally broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1978?
- Which radio sitcom was about life aboard the Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge?
- Which show was the successor to the BBC radio comedy programme Beyond Our Ken?
- Best known for a 1980s long-running ITV comedy-drama show, which actor played the lead role in the radio comedy A Life of Bliss?
- Since January 2020, Roger Allam co-starred with which well-known actress in the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series Conversations from a Long Marriage?
- What exactly is Old Harry in the radio comedy Old Harry's Game?
- Which BBC Radio 4 comedy series that premiered in 2007 had a name derived from the titles of two Charles Dicken's novels?
- Which British radio comedy series broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1977 is a series about lazy, incompetent civil servants?
- Which special agent was the star of a radio thriller serial between 1946 and 1951?
- What links the stiffening of body muscles and the name of a BBC Radio 4 black comedy set in a NHS hospital and produced between 2003 and 2006?
- In 2000, who began starring as Charles Prentiss in the Radio 4 comedy Absolute Power?
Answers
- Sid James
- Michael Bentine
- It's That Man Again
- Mrs Dale's Diary
- Kenneth Williams
- Ambridge
- Cabin Pressure
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Navy Lark
- Round the Horne
- Geroge Cole
- Joanna Lumley
- Satan, or the devil
- Bleak Expectations
- The Men from the Ministry
- Dick Barton
- Rigor Mortis
- Stephen Fry