Comedy Archives - Colin's Column

R4X @ the usual 8, midday & 7 today: Hancock – The Sleepless Night – alone worth tuning-in for Sid James bashing out a medley of opera arias.

Jun 22, 2022 | Comedy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7l

It’s Hancock day on BBC Radio 4 Extra – 8 o’clock, midday, 7 p.m. – everything is going well for Tony until he receives letters of murderous intent… classic encounter with Kenneth Williams’s policeman.

Jun 15, 2022 | Comedy, Ramblings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7l A reminder, http://www.colinscolumn.com/can-it-be-true-bbc-radio-4-extra-to-be-scrapped-if-so-it-is-insane-and-criminal/, and of Andrew Keener’s save-Radio-4-Extra petition found therein.

Paddington Bear to be the next Prime Minister.

Jun 7, 2022 | Comedy, Ramblings, Videos

Given the chain of events, it was inevitable. 148 Conservative Party MPs wrote to the Queen. The Queen and Paddington Bear take afternoon tea. I suspect that anything I post today will be overshadowed by the nation waiting for the result of the MPs’...

The Queen and Paddington Bear take afternoon tea.

Jun 5, 2022 | Comedy, Ramblings, Unexpected, Videos

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-61692278

Just been listening (from 8 a.m.) to the latest Hancock on BBC Radio 4 Extra, a classic Galton & Simpson episode retelling Tony’s WWII adventures. Hattie Jacques, Sid James, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams as the regular cast. Repeats today at midday and 7 p.m.

Jun 1, 2022 | Comedy, Ramblings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jp18 https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7l

Joan Bakewell (who turned 89 yesterday, April 16) interviews Phil Silvers (1967). Episodes of Sgt Bilko.

Apr 17, 2022 | Comedy, Videos