I can only remember the 60's (left in 69)
Have a look at this, I remember a few.
And look at some of these..... memories like yesterday....
www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk
Favourite was Kenneth Horne, Round the Horne, full of double entendres.
These from
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/funniest-radio-comedies-time/
5. Round the Horne (Light Programme/Radio 2, 1965-68)
The crack team of Marty Feldman and Barry Took gave us this sublime and ever-so-slightly risqué sketch show which featured the versatile vocal talents of Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams. It introduced the gay slang of polari to the nation (Bona!), while a generation of schoolboys tittered along to Rambling Syd Rumpo’s innuendo (“Green grows the grunge on my lady’s posset”).
4. The Goon Show (Home Service/Light Programme, 1951-1960)
Spike Milligan drove himself through a string of nervous breakdowns churning out Goon Show scripts, but his fevered imagination gave us one of the greatest influences on modern (and post-modern) comedy, at once daringly avant-garde and deeply silly – and impossible to explain. Monty Python looks tame by comparison.
2. Hancock’s Half Hour (Home Service, 1954-1959)
The sublime peregrinations of a tortured genius formed the backbone of radio comedy for Fifties listeners. Hancock broke new ground with its sitcom format, and also perfectly captured the humdrum existence of the post-war suburban man – rainy Sundays, interminable queues at the bus stop and the petty bureaucracy of local councils. There was also more than a dash of surreal humour, which is said to have influenced Harold Pinter.
1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Radio 4, 1978-80, 2004-05, 2018)
Before the books, film, TV series and novelty towel, Hitchhiker’s was a radio sitcom – and the best one ever made. It starred Simon Jones (soon to reprise the role in
a new series) as Arthur Dent, the mild-mannered Englishman who wakes up to find the Earth is about to be destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
Writer
Douglas Adams pushed the medium to its limits, conjuring otherworldly landscapes no Hollywood movie could ever match (with help from the pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop). It had a killer theme tune, to boot. Endlessly quotable, often profound, Hitchhiker's was a
sui generis masterpiece. You’d have to be a Vogon not to love it.
Sorry guys, got a bit excited there, rediscovering all the fun I had listening to the radio back in the day.
My eyes are still watering at Syd Pumpo's line "Green grows the grunge on my lady’s posset”.