Comedy podcasts: BBC Radio 4 comedy in your pocket
Building on the runaway success of the Friday Night Comedy podcast (featuring The Now Show and The News Quiz), there are now three comedy podcasts on offer from Radio 4.
Yes, the Friday Night Comedy podcast is now being downloaded over a million times each month, putting it at the top of the iTunes podcast charts on a regular basis. You told us you want yet more comedy, so in January we launched Radio 4's Comedy of the Week, featuring a different comedy from the Radio 4 schedule each week.
And a fortnight ago, we made What's So Funny? with Rufus Hound available as a Radio 4 Extra podcast. We think this might be the first ever magazine show about comedy, bringing you up to date with some of the latest programmes, films, tours, gags and comedy gossip.
Wherever you are in the world, you now have 90 minutes of Radio 4 comedy to download and keep every week.
Jane Berthoud is Head of BBC Radio Comedy
- Visit the Radio 4 Comedy homepage
- These are the Radio 4 podcasts
- And these are Radio 4 Extra's podcasts
- And finally, have a look at all of the BBC's podcasts
Comment number 1.
At 06:59 23rd Apr 2011, Shaun D Wilson wrote:That's great but will the extended version of The News Quiz be available as a podcast?
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Comment number 2.
At 08:55 23rd Apr 2011, petervharris wrote:Can we have "Just A Minute" available as a regular podcast. It appears infrequently as comedy of the week, but I like it, and radio reception where I now live makes it virtually impossible to listen to live.
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Comment number 3.
At 12:34 26th Apr 2011, Sidd Khajuria - BBC wrote:@ Shaun D Wilson -- I'm afraid it won't be, due to rights reasons
@ petervharris -- Again, I'm afraid we can't podcast everything we'd like to, due to rights reasons. But you can listen again to Just A Minute for a week after it transmits on Radio 4 or 4 Extra: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s5dp
Hope that's of some help,
Sidd. (BBC Radio Comedy dept.)
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