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Oh I bet they're pretty cool. BBC7 does that a lot too. They rerun old BBC dramas and comedy shows and so on. I sometimes go gorge myself on the old time stuff lol.
Radio comedy is also a big thing here. Most of the current crop of TV comedians got their first breaks on radio4 (the home of radio comedy). Lot of radio sketch shows which then get turned into TV sketch shows. Also a lot of sitcoms on radio. There's one that's just finished running called Elvenquest. Very funny.
I remember one really strange sitcom on radio4 wtf was it called *thinks* oh yeah At Home with the Snails. About this guy who starts out collecting snails to study but then realises he is more comfortable with snails than humans. So there's this Birdy type situation where he starts to live amongst his snails and stuff. Very peculiar but quite endearing.
I think my favourite radio play recently (well it's a series of plays actually) was the Complete Smiley: based on the John Le Carre spy novels. They've dramatised all the novels with Smiley the spymaster in. One of them was a three parter: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Wow. Just wow. Probably the classiest audio play I've heard in years. Beautifully directed and acted. I was a bit dubious about it working so well on radio, because I really loved the TV serialisation that was done in the 80s. But really, it was wonderful.
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