Radio Active (radio series)

Radio Active
GenreSketch show
Running time30 minutes
Home stationBBC Radio 4
TV adaptationsKYTV
StarringAngus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins
Michael Fenton Stevens
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Philip Pope
Written byAngus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins
Richard Curtis (first series only)
Produced byJimmy Mulville
David Tyler
Original release8 April 1980 –
17 October 1987
No. of series7
No. of episodes55

Radio Active is a radio comedy programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during the 1980s. The series grew out of a 1979 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show presented by The Oxford Revue and starred Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Michael Fenton Stevens, Helen Atkinson-Wood and Philip Pope. The first episode was broadcast in 1980, and it ran for seven series.