List of UK radio programmes explained

This is an incomplete list.

0-9

• 15 Minute Drama
• 15 Minute Musical
• 15 Storeys High
• 1834
• 1966 and All That
• 2000 Years of Radio
• 20th Century Vampire
• 3 for All
• 606
• The 7th Dimension
• The 99p Challenge

A

• Absolute Power
• Acropolis Now
• Across the Universe
• Adam and Joe
• The Adventures of John and Tony
• After Henry
• Afternoon Theatre
• The Alan Davies Show
• Aliens in the Mind
• All Change
• All Gas and Gaiters
• And This is Them
• Another Digance Indulgence
• Any Answers?
• Any Questions?
• The Archers
• Arrested Development
• Arthur Smith's Balham Bash
• As Time Goes By
• At Home with the Hardys
• The Attractive Young Rabbi
• Audio Diaries
• Awayday

B

• Babblewick Hall
• BBC OS
• BBC World Theatre
• Ballylenon
• Balti Kings
• Bandwagon
• Bangers and Mash
• Barrymore Plus Four
• Bearded Ladies
• Bernie Clifton's Comedy Shop
• Between the Ears
• Beyond the Back of Beyond
• Beyond the Pole
• Beyond Our Ken
• The Big Booth
• The Big Fun Show
• Big Jim and the Figaro Club
• The Big Top 40 Show
• The Big Town All Stars
• The Bigger Issues
• Blake's 7
• Book at Bedtime
• Bookcases
• Booked!
• Brain of Britain
• The Brains Trust
• Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll
• Brian Gulliver's Travels
• Bristow
• Broadcasting House
• The Boosh (radio series)

C

• Cabaret on 4
• The Cabaret Upstairs
• Cabin Pressure
• Caesar the Geezer
• Caribbean Voices
• A Case for Dr. Morelle
• Central 822
• Chambers
• The Change
• Children's Favourites
• Children's Hour
• Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller
• The Circle
• Clare in the Community
• Cliffhanger
• The Clitheroe Kid
• Comedy Album Heroes
• Coming Alive
• Composer of the Week
• Concrete Cow
• The Consultants
• Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show
• Counterpoint
• Cousin Bazilio
• The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show
• Crème de la Crime
• The Cumberland Sausage Show
• Curlew in Autumn

D

• Dad's Army
• Dead Man Talking
• Dead Ringers
• Dedicated Troublemaker
• Delve Special
• The Department
• Desert Island Discs
• Dick Barton, Special Agent
• Digital Planet
• Do Go On
• Dr Finlay's Casebook
• Doctor in the House
• Doctor at Large
• Doctor Thorne
• Doctor Who
• Does the Team Think?
• Double Bill
• Down the Line
• Down Your Way

E

• Earthsearch
• Ectoplasm
• Elastic Planet
• Elephants to Catch Eels
• ElvenQuest
• The Embassy Lark
• Erratically Charged
• Europe Today
• Exes

F

• Fab TV
• Face the Facts
• Faithful Departed
• The Fall of the Mausoleum Club
• Family Favourites
• Fanshawe Gets to the Bottom of...
• Farming Today
• Fat Chance
• Feedback
• Fellah's Hour with The Cheese Shop
• File on 4
• Fist of Fun
• Five Squeezy Pieces
• Flight of the Conchords
• Flying the Flag
• The Food Programme
• Foothill Fables
• The Forum
• The Foundation Trilogy
• Four Joneses and a Jenkins
• Frank Muir Goes Into...
• Frankie Howerd's Forum
• Friday Night is Music Night
• From Our Own Correspondent
• From the Bookshelf/Shelf
• Front Row

G

• GALAXY
• Gardeners' Question Time
• The Ghost at Number Ten
• Girlies
• A Good Read
• The Good Human Guide
• The Goon Show
• Graham Norton's News Lasso
• Grassblade Jungle
• Grease Monkeys
• The Griff Rhys Jones Show
• The Grumbleweeds Radio Show
• Guilty Party

H

• Hancock's Half Hour
• HARDTalk
• The Hare Lane Diaries
• Harvey and the Wallbangers
• Haunted
• Heated Rollers
• Hello, Cheeky!
• Hirsty's Daily Dose
• The Hislop Vote
• A History of the World in 100 Objects
• hit40uk
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Hoax!
• The Hobbit
• Home Truths
• Host Planet Earth
• House of Unspeakable Secrets
• How Things Began
• Huddwinks
• The Hudson and Pepperdine Show
• The Human Zoo

I

• I'm Glad You Asked Me That
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
• The Impressionists
• In Conversation
• The In Crowd
• In One Ear
• In the End
• Injury Time
• Inman and Friends
• Inner Voices
• Inspector West at Bay
• The Iron Road
• It'll Never Last...
• It's That Man Again
• It's Your Round

J

• Jamaica Inn
• Jammin'
• Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
• John Shuttleworth's Open Mind
• Just Juliette
• Just a Minute
• Just Perfick Shoes

K

• Kaleidoscope
• The Ken Dodd Show
• Ken Dodd's Palace of Laughter
• King of Bath
• King of the Road
• King Street Junior
• King Stupid
• Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge

L

• Last Word
• Late
• Late Junction
• Lee and Herring
• Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful
• Lent Talks
• Letter from America
• A Life of Bliss
• Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue
• Life with Dexter
• Life With The Lyons
• Like They've Never Been Gone
• Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting
• Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
• Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World
• Listen with Mother
• The Little Big Woman Radio Show
• Little Britain
• Living with Betty
• The Living World
• A Look Back at the Nineties
• Loose Ends
• Lord Peter Wimsey
• Losers
• Lucky Heather

M

• MacFlintock's Palace
• Mammon
• Many a Slip
• Man of Soup
• The Mark Steel Lectures
• The Mark Steel Solution
• Mars Project
• The Mausoleum Club
• The Men from the Ministry
• Midweek
• Midweek Theatre
• The Milligan Papers
• The Million Pound Radio Show
• Millport
• Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music
• The Mitch Benn Music Show
• Molesworth
• Money Box
• Moon Over Morocco
• The Moral Maze
• The Motorway Men
• The Museum of Everything
• My Muse
• Music While You Work
• My Uncle Freddie
• My Word!
• The Metal Hall

N

• The Nallon Tapes
• The Name's the Game
• Nature
• The Navy Lark
• The Network Chart Show
• The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
• Newsbeat
• Newsday
• Newshour
• Newsjack
• The News Huddlines
• The News Quiz
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Nightcap
• Night Waves
• The Nimmo Twins
• Nineteen Ninety-Four
• Nineteen Ninety-Eight
• No Commitments
• Not in Front of the Children
• Nothing's Gonna Change My World
• The Now Show

O

• Old Harry's Game
• Omar Khayyam
• On the Hour
• On the Job
• On the Town with The League of Gentlemen
• One
• One Lump or Two?
• Oobo Joobu
• Open Book
• Opera on 3
• Orbit One Zero
• Orbiter X
• The O'Show
• Outlook
• Overland Patrol

P

• The Party Party
• The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience
• Paul Temple
• People Like Us
• Peter Dickson Presents Nightcap
• Pick of the Pops
• PM
• Poetry Please
• Pop Go the Beatles
• The Press Gang
• The Price of Fear
• Probe
• Pull the Other One!
• Puzzle Panel

Q

• Quando, Quando, Quando
• The Quatermass Memoirs
• Quote... Unquote

R

• RadioTalk from The Radio Academy
• Radio Active
• Radio Newsreel
• Radio Shuttleworth
• The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket
• Ray's a Laugh
• The Remains of Foley and McColl
• Revolting People
• The Right Time
• Ringo's Yellow Submarine
• Rolling Home
• Round Britain Quiz
• Round the Horne
• The Routes of English
• Routemasters
• Rumpole of the Bailey
• The Russ Abbot Show

S

• Saturday Club
• Saturday Live
• Saturday Night Fry
• Saturday Night Theatre
• Saturday Review
• Science in Action
• Sexton Blake
• Shipping Forecast
• Sloe Coaches
• The Small World of Dominic Holland
• Smelling of Roses
• The Sofa of Time
• Some of Our Pilots are Missing
• Son of Cliché
• Sorry About Last Night
• Sounding Brass
• Special Courier
• Sport on Four
• Sports Report
• Sportsworld
• Stand Up to Screen
• Start the Week
• Steptoe and Son
• Steven Appleby's Normal Life
• Stockport... So Good They Named It Once
• Stop Messing About
• Stop the Week
• The Strand
• Streetsounds
• Stumped
• The Sunday Play
• Sunny Side Up

T

• Take It From Here
• Take Me to Your Reader
• Tales from the Backbench
• Tales from the Mausoleum Club
• Test Match Special
• Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
• That Mocking Bird
• That Reminds Me
• Think the Unthinkable
• This Is Craig Brown
• Tickling the Ivories
• Today
• Top of the Form
• Trivia Test Match
• The Truck
• True Stories from Britain
• Two Doors Down
• Two Priests and a Nun Go into a Pub...

U

• UK Music Week
• UK Radio
• The Unbelievable Truth
• Underneath the Arches
• Unnatural Acts
• Up to the Hour

V

• Variety Bandbox
• Variety Playhouse
• The Very World of Milton Jones
• Voyage

W

• Waggoners' Walk
• Waiting Gate
• The Way It Is
• Weak at the Top
• Week Ending
• Week in Westminster
• The Weekend Starts Here
• Westminster Hour
• Westway
• What the Papers Say
• Whatever Happened to ...?
• White Nights
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• Wild Justice
• Wise on the Wireless
• Woman's Hour
• Word of Mouth
• The Wordsmiths of Gorsemere
• Workers' Playtime
• The World as We Know It
• The World at One
• The World This Weekend
• The World Today
• The World Tonight
• World Have Your Say
• World of Pub
• World Update
• The Write Stuff

X

• X Marks the Spot

Y

• Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
• You Start, I'll Join In
• You and Yours
• Young Pioneers

References

• Swartz, Jon D., & Robert C. Reinehr. Handbook of Old-Time Radio: a comprehensive guide to golden age radio listening and collecting. Scarecrow Press, 1993.

See also

• List of Canadian radio programs
• List of US radio programs