Cult radio
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Cult radio, like cult figure and its audio-visual equivalents cult television and cult film attracts a band of aficionados devoted to a particular program. (For a fuller discussion of this sense of "cult", see cult film.)
A list of programmes that achieved cult radio status follows:
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UK Cult radio programmes
- The Archers
- The Clitheroe Kid
- Dead Ringers
- Desert Island Discs
- Dick Barton
- Doctor Finlay's Casebook
- The Goon Show
- Hancock's Half Hour
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Human Zoo (radio)
- I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and the integral "game" called Mornington Crescent
- I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again - the radio precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Just a Minute
- Mark and Lard
- The Navy Lark
- The News Huddlines
- The Perfumed Garden
- Quote... Unquote
- Radio Active
- Round the Horne
- Take It From Here, particularly the integral serial known as "The Glums"
- Top Gear (a pop music programme, not the BBC car programme of the same name).