Have you ever dreamed of being the life of the party? Having everyone hang on your words and laugh at your jokes-every time? Or are you feeling stressed out and need to unwind?
Pretty, impecunious Sally Nicholas never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage until she becomes an heiress and watches in bewilderment as her orderly existence goes haywire. Coping first with her brother’s wild theatrical ambitions, then with the defection of her fiancé and his...
Described by the Radio Times as ‘a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it’, Al Read’s weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and ‘60s...
A bizarre recollection of the events and major turning points in the life of the author; Alan Bennett. An incredibly moving piece that will win your heart...
Untold Stories is a poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alan's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret, an incredible piece...
Hang on to your asteroids! You're not coming out the same way you came in. Alien Adventure: The Adventure is a full-cast dramatization of a fresh, quirky, and irreverent interstellar farce.
Pam Ayres - poet, performer and national treasure - is known and loved by fans all over the world. Here she performs her hugely popular solo show to an enthusiastic audience...
Exclusively on the Spoken Network, Peter Donaldson, the voice of BBC Radio 4, reads this razor-sharp satire on the rise and fall of Tony Blair, retold as an Edwardian boy’s school story...
Richard Curtis’ and Ben Elton’s award-winning comedy in which Rowan Atkinson as the ubiquitous Blackadder, ably hampered by Tony Robinson as the loyal Baldrick, wreaks havoc throughout the centuries.
In another bona selection of sketches from the BBC radio's classic comedy Round the Horne we find that the two infamously outrageous resting thesps from Carnaby Street are at it again...
Young Bertie Wooster needs help in life. His affairs are in a complete mess. When Jeeves, the incomparable manservant, offers his services as valet, Bertie takes him on.
The most dangerous (usually to himself) humorist in America is back - back in the living room. And he's not taking any prisoners. Although he might take naps.
Sony Award-winning comedian Chris Addison stars in a fantastically funny new series of comedy lectures, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 'Superlative, intelligent comedy'
This is the Sony Radio award wining Radio 4 series from Chris Addison, which precedes Civilization. The four episodes are called Language and Communication, Social Development....
Cuthbert Banks is young, handsome, and plus four on the Wood Hills links, but makes no impression on the girl of his heart. But when an eminent Russian novelist kisses him on both cheeks, Adeline soon changes from scorn to adoration.
P. G. Wodehouse’s best-loved creation, the master-servant team of Bertie Wooster, the likable nitwit, and Jeeves, his effortlessly superior valet and protector, have become as famous as Holmes and Watson or Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
As the 'season of goodwill' approaches, Captain Mainwaring and his men use their rifles and their wits in a no-holds-barred contest with Captain Square and the Eastgate Platoon...
Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four of his favourite episodes from the evergreen radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn.
Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four more of his favourite episodes from the much-loved radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn...
Following the bestselling success of Dave's novel, Big Trouble, here is a hilarious new collection of columns from the writer critics have called "the funniest man in America."
Graham Norton meets his match in Brian from Big Brother, Rabbi Lionel Blue is stranded on a reality radio version of Desert Island Discs, and demons quake when they face Hyacinth the Vampire Slayer.
All five instalments from the tenth series of the hugely popular radio 4 comedy series ruthlessly takes the rip out of the celebrities we love to laugh at, be they actors, pop stars or politicians...
Just when politicians, celebrities and presenters thought they had got away with it, the award-winning Dead Ringers team is back with highlights from its third television series.
This hilarious dark-humored crime thriller features the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai, degenerate aristocrat and acknowledged coward. With his thuggish manservant Jock, he endures all manner of nasti...
Not your ordinary fairy tales, these are the infamous Fractured Fairy Tales, originally introduced in The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. Likely to thumb their noses at tradition and find their own versions of happily ever after, these quirky characters bring fresh, irreverent humor to fifteen twisted...
He’s back! Budleigh Salterton’s most famous citizen is off round the world on another six adventures. Meet Giles Wemmbley Hogg. 2m’s, 2g’s. Traveller, backpacker, ethnologist, etc, etc.
Wilhemina “Billie” Bennett, red-haired daughter of an American millionaire, loves golf, dogs, and Tennyson, and is to marry Eustace Hignett, the weak, poetry-writing son of a famous English writer. Enter Sam Marlowe, Eustace’s cousin, who plays tournament golf, and Jane Hubbard, Billie’s...
A further helping of humour from the original BBC Radio 4 radio sketch series which grew into a hit television show. Hilarious and irreverent, it is fronted by a team of award-winning young actors...
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influencial clowns in the history of radio. Four more classics of cult muttery from those wireless wizards.
The historic reunion of radio's greatest comedy team to celebrate 50 years of the BBC was their farewell performance and proved so momentous it was broadcast complete with the pre-show warm-up.
For years, British journalist Cash Peters trekked around Europe and America for the BBC and for his hilarious and hugely popular public radio series, The Bad Taste Tours. Join Peters...
Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime.
Welcome back to 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, where loveable curmudgeon Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is still suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
Two recently rediscovered episodes of the classic radio series, plus a duo of bonus programmes from the BBC archive promise to have you doubled up with laughter...
Once again, the master of misery is supported by a star cast including Sid James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, and four sparkling scripts by the masters of mirth, Galton and Simpson
In The Poetry Society, an evening with a group of Hancock’s new avant-garde friends produces gems of abstract poetry, not only from the group but also from Sid and Bill...
The Wild Man of the Woods shows Hancock’s desire to get away from it all. It leads him to camp first in a bus shelter on Clapham Common, and then in a bit of forest rented from Sid...
Four classic BBC Radio episodes from the comic genius of Tony Hancock. The Diary/The Old School Reunion/Hancock in the Police/The East Cheam Drama Festival...
Have you heard the story about the day Dickie Bird was invited to lunch with the Queen? Or the one about Brian Johnstone when he joined the Genadier Guards?
Have you heard the story about Alan Titchmarsh in the flower bed with Charlie Dimmock? Or Hinge & Bracket at the Edinburgh Festival? Or Richard Digance on his first date?
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! He's Just Not That Into You - educates otherwise smart women on how to tell when a guy just doesn't like them enough.
Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adam's famous 'trilogy in five parts'
It's 1620 and Mrs. Claus's dear husband is off in the New World planting the seeds of what will become a glorious Christmas tradition. Meanwhile, Mrs. Claus has chosen to stay in England.
'One of the smartest, funniest and most sweet-natured people I ever encountered … one of the most respected and loved comics on the circuit.' STEPHEN FRY
This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee’s mother discovers there is more – or, rather, less – to him than meets the eye.
Bertie gets into trouble when one of his pals starts to fall in love with every second girl he lays his eyes on. But the soup gets really thick when Bingo decides to marry one of them and enlists B...
This new edition of the bestselling audiobook features the much loved, much admired Brian Johnston, the famous BBC presenter and commentator, known the world over as The Voice of Cricket'...
Don't be strange - come on in, rest your lallies and let your riah down with two of the best pros in the business. It'll make your eyes stand out on stalks.
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits against regulars such as Kenneth Williams
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits - and their wit - against regular players...
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits against regular player including Paul Merton...
Just as uproariously funny – and terrifically popular – today as when it first began on BBC Radio 4 in 1968, Just a Minute challenges contestants to speak for one minute on a given subject.
Ever since that long gone age of railways - Whenever that was - Stations have needed porters. That special breed of men who during those long periods between trains, can find endless tasks to perform.
It's Piffle! It's The Shipping Forecast! It's Dating Agencies! It's Windpower!" These are just some of the subjects hilariously tackled by radio's favourite chatterers for Just A Minute.
Trent Noble's life is going nowhere fast. But sometimes a downward spiral can lead to a fork. In Trent's case, it leads to the town of Dadaville, an idyllic, rather eccentric place not marked on an...
Always polite but not always nice, the two ladies’ letters are often acerbic, one might even say bitchy, yet their subtle put downs create wonderful letters full of humour.
Seventeen humorous stories, including The Jumping Frog of Calavarous County, Story of Old Ram, Buck Fanshaw's Funneral, Tom Quartz, What Stumped the Blue Jays, and Journalism in Tennessee.
The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller about everyone's favourite dog. Marley quickly grew into a barrelling, ninety-seven pound steamroller of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other...
Gussie Fink-Nottle, after a convivial evening with "Catsmeat" Pinbright, is sentenced to fourteen days for wading in the fountain at Trafalgar Square. Bertie Wooster sees the red light. If there is...
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's tale of his hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots has gained thousands of fans all over the world...
A salvo of hilarity from that loose canon of American humor that Mirth of a Nation editor Michael Rosen has culled from some 1200 pages of brilliantly original works by our best contemporary humorists
Miss Elizabeth Mapp lives in a tightly controlled world until it is beset by interlopers. There are two retired army officers with conflicting aims upon her heart and a ravishing Contessa possessed...
The very best of the TV series, including Dead Parrot Sketch, The Lumberjack Song, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, and other classics from the supremely inventive world of Monty Python's Flying Circus...
This funny and surprising audiobook is about language and thought, about words unspoken, words spoken in anger, and especially about the power of words spoken in kindness.
A joy from beginning to end and wonderfully read by the author, this is a classic childhood memoir...a Yorkshire childhood, from the nation's best-loved gardener...
Making a first-time appearance on audio, this is the classic TV comedy sketch show which launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson...
From Andy Hamilton, co-creator of drop the dead donkey, six episodes from the first two BBC radio 4 series of the fiendishly funny comedy - set in hell!
Crabby, crusty and curmudgeonly he may be, but Victor Meldrew - played brilliantly by Richard Wilson - voices the exasperation of the once silent majority
With his latest collection Peace Kills, P.J. O'Rourke casts his ever shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun.
Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, feels the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanies the departure of one of his sisters. His sister Constance has arrived! Lord Emsworth needs Galahad’s help and telephones him immediately. There are tricky corners to be rounded, assorted...
England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the rich. But Emmeline Lucas, known as La Lucia is determined to lead a different life and thus upend the greats of society and her small English town.
In this "guys’ guide to life," the star of the hit TV show According to Jim talks about how men can continue to be real men while still managing to make things work with the opposite sex
This collection of Peter Hyman's musings, more pop cultural than philosophical, range from the heartfelt to the absurd, whether he's describing the scotch-soaked grief of a bad breakup or his unfor...
It's a situation which cries out for Jeeves you would think. But Bertie is fed up with the assumption that he is merely an addendum to his personal attendant. Stand back - Wooster is on the case!
At once tender and hilarious, this captivating story turns suburbia upside down, revealing the inner lives of three characters who have more humor, heartache, and heat than one PTA can hold.
Set entirely in the smoking room of a large company, this eight-part comedy series explores the personal foibles and suppressed longings of an oddly assorted bunch of characters.
One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice. Now there are two of them—both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth’s secretary, the efficient Baxter, is on the alert and...
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
If you thought Dennis Miller was done ranting, guess again. In Still Ranting After All These Years, recorded in early 2002, Miller is in fine form, commenting on everything.
This collection of six Individual portraits from the master of the monologue are Darker and more intense than the first collection, these six stories uncover the secrets behind ordinary suburban lives
With the engaging charm, warm humour and down-to-earth style that has made him Britain's favourite television gardener and a popular TV presenter, Alan Titchmarsh has now written 'a touch of the memoi
This is the world of Donald Trump, full of glitz, glamour, and other people's money. Yet despite glaring cracks in the shimmering façade, the myth and the image have remained stubbornly impenetrable.
“Laddie, write my biography. Bung it down on paper.” Thus spake Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge to his long-suffering friend Corky Corcoran, whose literary efforts to date have consisted of weekly newspaper articles and a single music hall song.
It's the twenty-first century and let's be honest—things are a little disappointing. Where are the ray guns, the flying cars, and the hoverboards that we expected? In this entertaining book, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we imagined for ourselves, the world we...
Recorded live in front of appreciative theatre audiences, here are dozens of hilarious stories about legendary Test cricketers such as Richie Benaud, Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott...
It's that time of year again—the holiday season. Between checkout lines a mile long, battles with traffic, and delayed flights, what's better to do than to laugh the aggravation away...
What to George and Laura Bush have in common with Dick and Jame? Well, both hail from prototypical WASP families. And, both exhibit a natural resistance to moral complexity (i.e., reality).