Radio Comedy : Banned and Censored Episodes : Part 2

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LATEST REVISION :   23 November 2025 Radio Comedy   :  Banned and Censored Episodes   -  Part 2 Presented on this page are episodes of British radio comedies and dramas which the BBC has banned or censored during the 21st Century culture wars, for allegedly being politically incorrect . These are the complete original broadcasts: presented as originally aired, before any cuts were made for political reasons. Many are rare as they are no longer broadcast, having been banned by the BBC. Additional shows are being banned and cut all the time. So I will be adding new recordings to this page from time to time, where they relate to the items originally posted here. Check back here regularly for new items.Those added are listed below, under Latest additions. I was horrified that this censorship has now spread beyond comedy, and is being reported in radio drama.  I myself found cuts in 2024 in a repeat of the detective drama Lord Peter Wimsey, in an episode of the serial Unnatural Death starring Ian Carmichael. These broadcasts pre-date political correctness , so may be unsuitable for listeners of a nervous disposition! For downloading individual files, this may be the page you want: https://archive.org/download/radio-comedy-banned-and-censored-episodes-2 Latest Additions Check back here from time to time. When I find recordings in better quality, or additional broadcasts are banned or cut, I will add further recordings to this page accordingly. These are the latest additions, in alphabetical order -      Absolute Power, s02e01    (03.08.2024)      Albert and Me, s01e07: The Homecoming      And June Whitfield, Part 2:   Take It From Here     (13.11.2025)      Best of Bentine (a.k.a. The Michael Bentine Show ), s01e04      Best of Bentine (a.k.a. The Michael Bentine Show ), s02e02  [ Banned ]      Best of Bentine (a.k.a. The Michael Bentine Show ), s02e04  [ Banned ]      Best of Bentine (a.k.a. The Michael Bentine Show ), s02e05  [ Banned ]      Betty Witherspoon Show, Episode 2      Betty Witherspoon Show, Episode 7      Betty Witherspoon Show, Episode 9      Burkiss Way, Extract from Lesson 19: Replace The Burkiss Way      Burkiss Way, s01e01:  Lesson 1 ~ Peel Bananas the Burkiss Way    (23.11.2025)      Burkiss Way, s02e07:  Lesson 13 ~ Commemorate Jubilees the Burkiss Way   (12.09.2025)      Burkiss Way, s03e01:  Lesson 20 ~ Discover Gravity the Burkiss Way   (01.03.2025)      Burkiss Way, s04e06:  Repeat Yourself the Burkiss Way , Part 2  [ Banned ]   (06.07.2024)      Burkiss Way, s04eSP:  Eric Pode of Croydon’s Easter Special [ Banned ]      Burkiss Way, s05e02:  Sack the Burkiss Way   (27.09.2024)      Comedy Greats,  No.6: The Seventies, Part 2   [ Banned ]      Crowned Hudds, No.3: Fourth Wedding and Some Funerals (FLAC)      Crowned Hudds, No.4: VR in Charge (FLAC)  [ Banned ]      Crowned Hudds, No.5: A Comedy of Arrows (FLAC)   [ Banned ]      Crowned Hudds, No.6: Grecian 2001 (FLAC)      Dad's Army Christmas Special: Present Arms -- FLAC recording      Dad's Army, s01e02: Museum Piece -- FLAC recording      Dad's Army, s02e14: Don't Fence Me In      Dad's Army, s03e18: The Recruit -- FLAC recording      D.I. Cromwell - Jagged Prayer, Episode 3: Sister, Brother   [ Banned ]      Doddy's World of Whimsy, s01e08: Transcription Service disc No.28   [ Banned ]      Drop Me Here Darling, Episode 7: Fitness Can Damage Your Health    [ Banned ]  (29.07.2024)      Ed Doolan Interviews: Rolf Harris (192 Kbps)  [ Banned ]      Ernest Fontwell versus the Experts, No.4: The Catering Experts      Frankie Howerd Show, s02e02 (TS02) (192 Kbps) -- Better quality      Frankie Howerd Show, s04e06 (192 Kbps) -- Better quality      Frankie Howerd Variety Show, s01e06: Guest Norman Vaughan   [ Banned ] (22.02.2025)      Home to Roost, s02e07: Mother’s Not Well    (02.09.2024)      Huddwinks, s01e01: Over the Top      Huddwinks, s02e03:  The Idiots Have Landed   (02.06.2025)      Huddwinks, s02e04:  Dead Dames Don’t Dance with Danger   (10.06.2025)      Huddwinks, s02e06:  The Fall of the House of Slaithwaite   (23.06.2025)      In A Nutshell, s02e04:  Eureka   [ Banned ]      J Kingston Platt, s01e04:  “ Getting Rid of a Troublemaker ”   [ Banned ]      Jason Explanation, s01e05:  Travel and Leisure   (25.07.2025)      Jim The Great, s01e02:  The Stately Homes of England   [ Banned ]    (03.03.2025)      Jim The Great, s01e04:  The Great Celtic Arms Race   [ Banned ]   (20.07.2025)      Lord Peter Wimsey: Unnatural Death - Ep 2:  Death In Epping Forest   (12.01.2025)      Men from the Ministry, s13e08: Claws   (19.07.2025)      Old Harry’s Game, s05e01:  Moral Leadership  (01.09.2025)      Philip Marlowe, 1977-09-26:  The Big Sleep (90 min)  (12.01.2025)      Radio Active, s01e06:  Radio Active Awards  (15.08.2025)      Radio Active, s01e07:  The Hee Bee Gee Bees Story   [ Banned ]   (15.08.2025)      Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket, s01e02: The Stackton Faggott  [ Banned ]      Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket, s02e02: Telling Tails      Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket, s04e05: Fit for Anything   (TS Edit)  (02.03.2025)      Small Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter, s03e05: The Fridge      Steptoe and Son, s06e07: The Seven Steptoerai      Steptoe and Son, s06e08: Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard      Tony Law's Surreal Guide to Surreal Comedy: Part 1 (60 min)  [ Banned ]   (18.05.2025) To identify the most recent changes, I've included a date (highlighted in red ) of when the item was added to this page. This is so you can easily see what additions have been made since your last visit. Sometimes the very latest items are highlighted in red for clarity. The date in red also indicates roughly when I discovered the episode had been cut or banned. Sometimes this is while listening live to the radio; but it may indicate the date the cut or ban was reported to me; or it may be merely the date I was sent an uncut recording or found one on the internet: it can take a long time to obtain an undamaged version. So the date given here may be long after the occasion on which the cut or ban first happened on air. For details, see the link below. Once a certain number of recordings have been attached to a page, the page becomes slow and unwieldy to operate (when uploading further items). It therefore seemed best to divide the files approximately in half. The original page, to which the remainder of the recordings have been uploaded, is:     Radio Comedy - Banned and Censored Episodes : Part 1 I have not uploaded the banned episodes of the Philip Marlowe drama series, because these are available at:     Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler : OTR Crime Drama I am not adding further banned or cut episodes of the sketch comedy Radio Active , because these are now available at:     Radio Active Complete : Edits Reinstated For details of whether an episode is banned or cut, and (if cut) what cuts were made and which repeats were cut, you might try this link (which now lists more than 800 banned and cut broadcasts ):     Radio 4 Extra : Censored broadcasts -     https://oldradiocomedy.wordpress.com Recordings 1. The radio recordings archived here derive from analogue sources, from a time when radio broadcasts were preserved on acetate discs, or vinyl discs, or magnetic tape. Accordingly, the sound quality may vary. 2. The recordings have been donated to the archive by listeners, not derived from professional sources. Accordingly, the sound quality may vary. 3. Few of the recordings are derived from the original broadcasts. They mostly derive from more recent repeats, which (due to improvements in technology) can sound better than off-air recordings made on non-professional equipment in the past. 4. For each recording, I have uploaded one file only: usually an .m4a or .flac file (where available). All other files with the same filename (any .afpk or .png or .mp3 files) have been created from it by the archive's automated systems, not uploaded by me. 5. If I have uploaded an .mp3 file, the other files with the same filename will NOT include an .m4a or .flac file; the .mp3 file will be the ONLY audio file. 6. In a case of doubt, examine the dates and times in the "Last modified" column (on the download page). For each group of files with the same filename, the file with the earliest timestamp is the file I uploaded (my master recording). 7. I only upload the clearest recording with the highest currently available bitrate. 8. If an improved recording later becomes available, I will add it (as a second version of the broadcast), but with some difference in the filename to distinguish them. 9. Where more than one recording has been uploaded (in adding an improved version), these can be told apart by a difference in the filename (such as a different repeat date), and in most cases also by a difference in the bitrate or file size. Copyright Expired Recordings The 50 year period of broadcast copyright under the UK's Copyright Acts 1956 and 1988 has expired for all items included in this collection first broadcast over fifty years ago: · Copyright Act 1956, section 14(2):   https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1956/74/section/14/enacted · Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 14(2):   https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/14

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.