Remembering... Kenny Everett

Remembering... Willie Rushton

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 52 mins)
• By BBC Audiobooks Ltd
• Narrated By Willie Rushton, Barry Cryer

Career highlights from one of this country's funniest satirists and comedy men.

Willie Rushton's career spanned decades, from the cutting edge satire of television's That Was the Week That Was to the razor-sharp punnery and verbal wizardry of radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Survivors Series 01

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Matt Fitton, Andrew Smith, John Dorney, and others
• Narrated By Lucy Fleming, Ian McCulloch, Louise Jameson, and others

It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying.... When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces. Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again....

Remembering... Spike Milligan

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 54 mins)
• By BBC Audiobooks Ltd
• Narrated By Spike Milligan

Comic icon Spike Milligan recollects highlights from his stellar career. The comic genius of Spike Milligan changed the face of radio comedy through The Goon Show. Here Milligan chooses and introduces classic clips from an astonishing career: readings from his books Puckoon and Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall, poems, songs, sketches, extracts from Q6 and In the Psychiatrist's Chair. He reminisces about India and Bexhill and reads his favourite poems, including 'Fred Fernakerpan'.

Steptoe & Son: Series 5 & 6: 15 episodes of the classic BBC radio sitcom

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
• Narrated By Harry H Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell

Series five & six of the BBC radio sitcom starring Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, adapted from the much-loved TV series. Steptoe and Son ran for eight series on BBC TV and even spawned two feature films. Such was the series' popularity in the mid-1960s that the cast specially recorded several episodes for BBC radio. Here, collected together for the first time, are all episodes from the fifth and sixth radio series, scripted by Hancock's Half Hour creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Fawlty Towers, Volume 1: Basil the Rat

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 4 mins)
• By John Cleese, Connie Booth
• Narrated By John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others

Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese.

Steptoe & Son: The BBC Radio Collection: Series 1 & 2: 21 Episodes of the Classic BBC Radio Sitcom

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
• Narrated By Harry H. Corbett, Wilfred Brambell

Collected together for the first time, 21 episodes of the radio series starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett, based on the TV episodes written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The episodes include 'The Offer', 'The Bird 65 Today', 'The Stepmother', 'The Economist', 'Wallah-Wallah Catsmeat', 'The Diploma', 'Steptoe à la Cart', 'The Holiday', 'The Bath', 'The Lead Man Cometh', 'A Musical Evening'.

Steptoe & Son: Series 3 & 4: 16 episodes of the classic BBC radio sitcom

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
• Narrated By Harry H Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell

Series 3 and 4 of the hilarious radio sitcom starring Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, adapted from the much-loved TV series. Steptoe & Son ran for eight series on BBC TV and even spawned two feature films. Such was the series' popularity in the mid-1960s that the cast specially recorded several episodes for BBC radio. Here, collected together for the first time, are all episodes from the third and fourth radio series, scripted by Hancock's Half Hour creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and adapted by Gale Pedrick.

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Spike Milligan
• Narrated By Spike Milligan
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, written and read by Spike Milligan. At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train....

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (Dramatised)

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Douglas Adams
• Narrated By Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, and others

A Special Edition of the original radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978 and recently voted the Nation's Favourite Audiobook in a Guardian poll. Starring Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan and Stephen Moore, these six episodes (Fit the First to Fit the Sixth) have been remastered to modern-day standards by Dirk Maggs, and for the first time feature Philip Pope's arrangement of the familiar theme tune.

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: Volume Three

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 56 mins)
• By BBC Audiobooks
• Narrated By full cast

Described by Barry Took as "a kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrases, and innuendo, revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic", I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again pre-dated I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue. It showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie.

The Complete Talking Heads: The classic BBC Radio 4 monologues plus A Woman of No Importance

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Alan Bennett
• Narrated By Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge

The complete audio collection of Alan Bennett's celebrated monologues, published together for the first time and performed by some of Britain's best actors. The Talking Heads monologues are widely regarded as one of Alan Bennett's finest dramatic achievements. First broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s and 1990s, they won a host of awards and huge popular acclaim, and remain among his most admired works today.

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: Volume One

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 55 mins)
• By BBC Audiobooks
• Narrated By full cast

Described by Barry Took as "a kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrases, and innuendo, revolving at breakneck speed and with a complete disregard for logic", I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again pre-dated I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue. It showcased the comic talents of Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie.

Fawlty Towers, Volume 2: The Germans

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 4 mins)
• By John Cleese, Connie Booth
• Narrated By John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others

Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese.

Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection

• ORIGINAL (18 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
• Narrated By Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorn, full cast

Between 1980 and 1988 on BBC television and radio, the exploits of the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP (Paul Eddington) - later Prime Minister - kept the British nation enthralled. Helped - and hampered - by his diligent Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne) and his Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), Hacker and his department became synonymous with government bureaucracy and administrative double dealing.

Remembering... Kenneth Williams

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 10 mins)
• By BBC Audiobooks Ltd
• Narrated By Kenneth Williams

Wonderful highlights of Kenneth Williams' career in this classic compilation. For more than 30 years, Kenneth Williams kept the nation in stitches with his outrageous gallery of comic creations and an effortlessly brilliant barrage of repartee and innuendo on radio and television. In Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, Kenneth Williams brought us the popular characters of Rambling Syd Rumpo, J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, and Sandy (of Julian & Sandy).

North by Northamptonshire: Complete Series (BBC Radio 4: Comedy)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 51 mins)
• By Katherine Jakeways
• Narrated By Sheila Hancock, Mackenzie Crook

A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series with a stunning cast including Sheila Hancock, Mackenzie Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon about a small town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a talent night. 'North by Northamptonshire' was originally broadcast weekly from 16 June 2010 to 7 July 2010. In each episode we catch up with Rod, the local supermarket manager (Mackenzie Crook), who shares rather more than is usual about his private life over the store's tannoy system.

The News Quiz: Series 87: 7 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 14 mins)
• By BBC
• Narrated By full cast, Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toskvig

Sandi Toksvig chairs seven episodes of the ever-popular topical comedy show. The News Quiz, 'the finest topical comedy panel game known to radio', has been providing headlines and punchlines since it first aired in 1977. In these seven episodes, long-standing panellists and guest players tackle issues diverse and diverting.

The Missing Hancocks Series 2: Five New Recordings of Classic 'Lost' Scripts

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
• Narrated By full cast

Kevin McNally stars in five further brand-new recordings of original Hancock's Half Hour scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Whilst Hancock's Half Hour was an enormously popular radio sitcom in the 1950s, many of the episodes were not retained in the BBC Sound Archive and are believed to be lost. Following the successful first series, five more episodes have been recreated by BBC Radio 4, with Kevin McNally once more reprising the role made famous by Tony Hancock.