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.