Radio 4 is to celebrate Rik Mayall in a new show featuring previously unheard audio of the comic legend writing, joking and creating a new character, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal. Most ...

Radio 4 Extra is to mark what would have been Rik Mayall's birthday by broadcasting The Last Hurrah - Interview With The Snowman, a comedy drama starring and co-written by the comedian. The programme ...

What do radio critics do on their holidays? Listen to people saying (a) how much they love radio but (b) how much they don’t love some programmes. Into the first category fall Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, ...

Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales (Radio 4) began repellently last night. Mayall, narrating, opened his tale with the sound of a zip being fastened. Was he doing up his flies? His pencil case? What followed ...

Marking 10 years since the death of comedy icon Rik Mayall, the writer Max Kinnings looks back at Mayall’s life and career through the recordings they made together during the writing of The Rik’s ...

Adrian Edmonson left BBC listeners in tears as he struggled to contain his emotions while discussing his late co-star, Rik Mayall, nine years on from the comedian's sudden death. Adrian Edmonson, 66, ...