Where can I find old time British radio programs from 1940 to 1955?

BBC Radio7 broadcast old prgrammes. Usually they are from the 1960's onwards. However they also have regular airings of old Goons shows so maybe they have other programmes from the 1950's too.

But I think Mike is right, most material would have been live and many episodes would have been deleted.

The only place I find old radio stuff is on The Internet Archive. Most of it is American but there is some British stuff from the fifties.

I think one of the reasons for a lack of old British comedy is that it was broadcast live and not recorded, so there are no copies of some of the early stuff. That and the BBC had a policy at one time of deleting a lot of the old stuff to free up space.

I can only suggest trying the link below and see if you can find anything there that appeals.

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