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Another helping of inspired ad-libbery from the multi award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.

1982 was a historic year, a year in which the battle for a small group of islands in the South Atlantic dominated the news. From the initial broadcasts of the growing Argentine threat and Mrs Thatcher's speech to the Commons informing them that a Task Force will sail, to the battles for Goose Green and Port Stanley, the Argentine surrender and the controversial sinking of the Belgrano—all these historic moments, together with all the other important events of the Falklands War, are recorded here, in live BBC Radio News coverage.

Sorry I Haven't a Clue has Radio Four's highest listening figures for light entertainment and won the 1998 Voice of the Listener and Viewer for top radio show.

Here is a third volume of highlights from recent series of The News Quiz, presented by chairman Simon Hoggart.

It's the hardy perennial of panel games that's constantly in bloom, a brimful of the funniest punnings and wittiest one-liners around.

Woman's Hour: A Celebration of Mothers is an audiobook that looks at the changing role of mothers over the last fifty years; the relationships that they have enjoyed with their children, how they have juggled the work life balance and how they have challenged the stereotypes and tested the boundaries of what being a mother means.

The show that grabs listeners by the waist, swirls them round in time to a Strauss waltz, and then trips over the banana skins of convention.

This selection of four more editions of Just a Minute includes the Sony award-winning programme from 2002, plus three from the first series of 2003. Nicholas Parsons once again attempts to keep control over the proceedings, as well as over panellists Clement Freud, Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Julian Clary, Pam Ayres (making her debut on the show), Graham Norton, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Ross Noble, Steve Frost, and Charles Collingwood as they pit their wits, and their words, against the clock.

It's Piffle! It's The Shipping Forecast! It's Dating Agencies! It's Windpower! And these are just some of the subjects hilariously tackled by radio's favourite chatterers for Just A Minute. All, hopefully, but usually hopelessly, without repetition, deviation, or hesitation.

Sorry I Haven't a Clue has Radio Four's highest listening figures for light entertainment and won the 1998 Voice of the Listener and Viewer for top radio show.

Britain's best-loved double act is back in another sunshine-filled helping of unforgettable sketches and good-humoured gems from the radio series of The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show. These four episodes feature guest appearances from Gayle Hunnicutt and Percy Edwards, plus singers Anita Harris and Salena Jones.

Just a Minute began on BBC Radio 4 in 1967 and has become a classic panel game which is still popular on Radio 4 today.

Just when you thought it was safe to listen again, Dead Ringers is back with its skewed and scary take on the world of celebrity, politics, and the mass media. All human, and quite a bit of inhuman, life is here.

Another hilarious selection of mirth-filled minutes from BBC Radio 4's popular long-running panel game.

Despite the many films and television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just 20 years old. Many of the men and women who designed and built their planes were even younger.

Another hilarious selection of mirth-filled minutes from BBC Radio 4's popular long-running panel game.

Just when you thought it was safe to listen again, Dead Ringers is back with its skewed and scary take on the world of celebrity, politics, and the mass media. All human, and quite a bit of inhuman, life is here.

Just when you thought it was safe to listen again, Dead Ringers is back with its skewed and scary take on the world of celebrity, politics, and the mass media. All human, and quite a bit of inhuman, life is here.

Impressionist Alistair McGowan leads a talented cast taking satirical digs at subjects that range from newsworthy to naughty in this wickedly funny topical comedy from the BBC Radio 4 series.

To mark the 35th anniversary of Just a Minute in 2002, the popular BBC Radio 4 Panel Game broadcast an anniversary edition of the programme.