When he’s not bellringing, baking bread, curing his own bacon or travelling the land by narrowboat, my old friend Ben collects and archives UK radio comedy shows. He has a huge ever-growing downloadable archive, regularly updated as missing, incomplete or flawed episodes come to light, meticulously documented and in the case of some of the shows, absolutely complete. Probably the most complete archive of this stuff in existence.
You are welcome to download anything that takes your fancy (but not everything all at once, please, because that would be greedy) at no cost whatsoever, although donations are always appreciated.
UK Radio Show Archives
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How brilliant! Thank you
Kin ell.
That looks marvellous.
I’m going in …
BHFJ lashings there.
Best friend ever!
Dick Powell as ‘Richard Diamond’ is hugely entertaining too. I listen to it most nights but usually fall asleep before the episode ends.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Richard_Diamond_Private_Detective_Singles
Brill!
Thanks for sharing!
Digging into Dads Army as I type.
Ooh, thanks. Think I have all the Hancocks but need to check.
I bookmarked the site when it was previously mentioned & it’s very good.
I tend to use Fourble more, which has a massive list (mainly sourced from archive.org), is regularly updated, and can be sent as scheduled podcasts.
https://fourble.co.uk/podcasts
Archive.org is an amazing resource but the trouble with it is that some things are inaccurately described, because they have so much material on the site that it’s impossible to check everything thoroughly.
Ben has found great stuff there and also some completely-wrongly-dated stuff and things with incorrect/incomplete cast lists that he’s then corrected on his site.
There is one site (he did mention who but I instantly forgot) that has been using material from Ben’s archive for podcasts but not giving him a credit. He’s now blocked their URL as they have not responded to his requests to do the right thing and give credit where due.
Lawks a lordy that’s incredible.
Thanks for posting Mike and hats off to Ben.