Comedy series written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Claire Downes, Stuart Lane, Al Holloway, Danny Robbins and Dan Tetsell, taking a look at radio as broadcast throughout history.
:: Series 1
This series was originally broadcast on Radio 4 in the late night comedy slot (11.00pm), Wednesdays.
| Tx. date | BBC7 Rpt. date | Title | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18.10.00 | 17.2.03 | Roman Britain Radio | It's 55AD and DJ Steve-in-the-Afternoon fights Roman plans to change the nation's favourite radio station. |
| 25.10.00 | 18.2.03 | Dark Age FM | It is 500AD, history's most miserable period. Britain is being invaded twice a week and a bloke called Arthur is running the country, but at least there's always Steve in the Afternoon to count the Britons down to the end of the world. |
| 1.11.00 | 19.2.03 | Radio Crusade Roadshow | Join DJ Steve in the Afternoon on his AD1200 Christian Crusade Roadshow, as he gathers up an army of children and the plague-ridden to find salvation and a sun tan in the Holy Land. |
| 8.11.00 | 20.2.03 | Headless - Civil War Radio | Tune in to Britain's darkest hour: the English Civil War, AD 1645, revealed as a silly mix-up with DJ Steve-in-the-Afternoon and King Charles I. |
| 15.11.00 | 21.2.03 | Mad - Georgian Radio | It's the Age of Enlightenment and Britain is going Enlightenment crazy. |
| 22.11.00 | 23.6.03 | Steaming - Radio Victoriana | Meet other dandies on the Dandy-Line, early Victorian ankle-pornography is exposed, and science is praised for inventing a gun that only works on non-Englishmen. |
:: Series 2
This series was originally broadcast on Radio 4 in the late night comedy slot (11.00pm), Wednesdays.
| Tx. date | Title | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 18.9.02 | Radio Mustard | The horror, carnage and laughter of the First World War. |
| 25.9.02 | Beagle FM | DJ Suzanne Canker joins Charlie Darwin on his scientifical journey into monkey-nonsense. |
| 2.10.02 | Tempest FM | As the nation mourns the death of William Shakespeare, the grieving widow Anne Hathaway is annoyed by a DJ. |
| 9.10.02 | Greensleeves FM | Henry VIII is getting married far too often for the taste of Catholic station Sanctus FM. |
| 16.10.02 | Sherwood FM | It is the year 1206, and DJ Suzanne Canker has fallen for new hero on the block Robin the Hood. |
| 23.10.02 | Olympia FM | It is the year 776 BC, and DJ Suzanne Canker is in Greekland for the first Olympic Games. |