>Why can't we have one?
>
>Just imagine it - Hancock, ancient Peel sessions, Chris Morris, Fist Of Fun, Kenny Everett, Letter From America, The Goons, On The Hour, Out On Blue Six, Soundbite, Famous For 15 Minutes...

Room 101, Mary Whitehouse Experience (so I can change my mind and decide it was probably alright after all), Baker's Morning Edition, In One Ear, Radio Active, Son Of Cliche, old top 40s on Sundays, old interviews from the archives so that we could find out for ourselves whether people really said things...

TJ, shall we start drawing up the forms?

It's (potentially) one of the new digital radio chanels the BBC are proposing. A channel to draw on classic comedy and drama from the archives, apparently. And they did mention Hancock in some of the early promotion for it.

I can't even get the digital radio signal down here - too near the coast and the frequency it uses interferes with radio-controlled garage door openers in France.

France!

*mutter* *froth*

>It's (potentially) one of the new digital radio chanels the BBC are proposing.

Indeed. A mate of mine who works at Maida Vale is involved in the process of transferring old comedy progs and Peel sessions to CD ready for use by such a channel.

Let's break in and steal those CDs. Who's with me?

I was trying to order an old Peel Sessions album the other day and I couldn't find a site for Strange Fruit, I had to order through an on-line retailer. Are SF defunct nowadays, then?

Said channel is going to be geared towards 'family listening', though. So Hancock's fine, but MWE and Peel Sessions are unlikely.

Let's set up our own. We've got the tapes.

>Let's break in and steal those CDs. Who's with me?

Me

Seriously, why doesn't someone set one up and then license tapes from the BBC?

Surely radio stuff would be comparatively dirt cheap???

>Seriously, why doesn't someone set one up and then license tapes from the BBC?
>
>Surely radio stuff would be comparatively dirt cheap???

I've often thought something along those lines. I reckon a classic comedy channel would work quite well, the only problem would be that you would inevitably end up with a shortage of quality material to broadcast.

It would be nice to hear all the Armando Ianucci R1 shows again!

>It's (potentially) one of the new digital radio chanels the BBC are proposing. A channel to draw on classic comedy and drama from the archives, apparently. And they did mention Hancock in some of the early promotion for it.
>
>I can't even get the digital radio signal down here - too near the coast and the frequency it uses interferes with radio-controlled garage door openers in France.

If it's any use to you, I think it's going to be on Sky Digital too.