The best of radio comedy.

I recently found a bunch of torrents of radio shows. My views on piracy aside, it's a great opportunity to re-listen to fantastic radio comedy I've listened to since I discovered that non-visual gags are also funny.


Here's the list of what I consider to be the best modern radio comedy:

• A Series of Psychotic Episodes - The best contemporary comedy I've found yet. It's a sketch show full of weird jokes and witty references. There are only 4 episodes in the series, but they're good.
• Cabin Pressure - Haven't listened to all of it but it's a sitcom about pilots on long journeys. Each character manages to retain an identity and personality which shows throughout the episodes.
• Miranda Hart's Joke Shop - Another sitcom, it's about a woman called Miranda who opens a joke shop with a friend. She has a crush on a man and her mother is desperate to 'marry her off', it offers a brilliant satire of society with a few gags included.
• Electric Ink - Sitcom about a newspaper, the main character is a cynical journalist called Maddox, it's a funny (although probably wildly inaccurate) insight into the world of journalism. 
• Play and Record - Sketch show with a compilation of generally amusing (if slightly mainstream) sketches.
• The Bigger Issues - A bunch of actors host an amateur radio programme which discusses 'Big Issues' such as homophobia and homelessness. In the process they expose their own prejudices. It's difficult to listen to but you can think of each episode as one very long, very clever joke.
• That Mitchell and Webb Sound - Far, far better than Mitchell and Webb's TV sketches, although it's probably best to watch the TV ones first because you need to get used to the voices associated with which character.
• Any one of either the Mark Steel Revolution/Lecture/Solution - Stand-up comedy... on the radio. I like it mainly because it's subtly political and biased to the left.
• Revolting People - The radio equivalent of a costume drama. Set in some town in America during or before their war of independence it follows the antics of a shopkeeper who has to house 2 soldiers in his home. It's especially good for it's use of sound effects to greatly enhance the setting.

Now that's finished I'm off to play Perfect Dark Zero with my brother.