Radio Active Archive

For more on Radio Active's origins, visit the Oxford Comedy Archive.

The cast of Radio Active photographed by Tim Anderson, 2000.

'ANNA'S FIT AND FAT EXERCISE PROGRAMME', Radio Active Times, Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins, p.50

Article: ‘On Active service’, Radio Times, 7-13 July 1984, p.9

Radio Active, BBC Radio Light Entertainment’s entry to the 1987 Monaco Radio Contest

Radio Active, BBC Radio Light Entertainment’s entry to the 1987 Monaco Radio Contest

Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Helen Atkinson Wood, Mike Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope return in a third series of the award-winning comedy set in a chaotic TV station. PICTURE SHOWS: (Left to right) PHILIP POPE, GEOFFREY PERKINS, HELEN ATKINSON WOOD, ANGUS DEAYTON and MIKE FENTON STEVENS Transmission: Starting, Friday, September 17. (BBC2)

'KYTV' returns with a second series of programmes happening in a spoof Satellite TV Station. PICTURE SHOWS: (Left to right) MIKE FENTON-STEVENS, ANGUS DEAYTON, PHILIP POPE and GEOFFREY PERKINS. HELEN ATKINSON-WOOD seated. Transmission: Starting, Tuesday, March 17. (BBC2)

Article: ‘Have I got sitcoms for you’, The Daily Telegraph, 2 August 1995, p.16

IN MY VIEW: 'Wry look at Sky’, Hilary Kingsley, The Mirror, 13 May 1989, p.13

“#OnThisDay 1989: KYTV, a low-budget satellite television channel born from the ashes of "national local" radio station Radio Active, was launched.”

'Mike Flex's Top Ten Teasers!’, Radio Active Times, Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins, p.61

‘FACT FILES’, Radio Active Times, Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins, p.4

The Stage, 14 May 1992, p.21

TRANSMISSION: Friday, May 12th on BBC-2