Comedy
"Christmas Every Day"
William Dean Howells
A little girl wishes for it to be Christmas every day -- and gets her wish -- in this 1892 story. Much imitated and adapted!
Mayor Of The Town
Various
Life in a small town, featuring Lionel Barrymore and Agnes Moorehead. (1942 - 1949)
Things Fall Apart: BBC Radio Comedy Drama
BBC Radio 4
Chinua Achebe’s classic tale depicting pre-colonial 1890's Igbo village life, centring on the rise and fall of a powerful Igbo clan leader O…
The Intimate Strangers
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Booth Tarkington
"Beginning with the girl of yesterday and a lawyer of uncertain age, stranded in a railway station, half starved and uncertain of the f…
Measure for Measure (version 3)
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William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare's more enigmatic works. As one of the so-called "problem plays," it mixes a dark…
The Money-Spinner
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Arthur Wing Pinero
When his younger brother incurs a large betting debt, what could be easier than for a man to borrow the money to save him from the factory h…
The Parson's Wedding
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Thomas Killigrew
Often considered Killigrew's best play, this is a comedy with a bawdy tone where people flirt, trick each other and everyone else. It was th…
Mice and Men
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Madeleine Lucette Ryley
No, not the famous “Of Mice and Men” you’re thinking of. Instead, we have a sweet romantic comedy that tells the story of a bachelor, Mr. E…
Rigor Mortis: BBC Radio Full-Cast Black Comedy
BBC Radio 4
Meet Dr Anthony Webster and Dr Ruth Anderson, two pathologists attempting to live normal lives in an atmosphere of death, decay and seriousl…
Ford Theater 49 03 04 The Horn Blows At Midnight
Unknown
This is the radio version of The Horn Blows at Midnight, starring Jack Benny, and Claude Rains. Jack, playing a minor angel named Athanael, …
Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection - all as relevant today as when this comedy was written 2200 years ago…
Jack Benny 1937 03 07 Fight Of The Century
Unknown
Jack uses Abe Lyman and his Orchestra while broadcasting from New York, and has a hard time trying to convince everyone he's not afraid of L…
Fred Allen 10 Eps
Fred Allen
(10 Episodes) Classic Fred Allen - Town Hall Tonight; The Fred Allen Show; OTR * def gp ddh
Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes: BBC Radio Comedy
BBC Radio 4
Ian Hislop takes a hilarious look at some of Britain's oldest jokes The British are rather proud of their sense of humour - but where has th…
Fifty Cents
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Billy Mortimer
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Fifty Cents by Billy Mortimer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 21, 2011.Or…
Summer Boarders; or The Great Jewel Mystery
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Josephine Van Tassel Bruorton
A rich widow or two. An owner of 1000 acres of fine land. An heiress to the 1000 acres. Nefarious visitors of various sorts after the land, …
Os Deuses de Casaca
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Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis
Divertida comedia representando os deuses do Olimpo vivendo na sociedade moderna, inclusive na vestimenta, daí o título da pe&…
The Train at Platform 4
BBC Radio 4
Comedy legends Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis bring a new sitcom to Radio 4, set in the claustrophobic carriages of a cross-country rail service…