I know we have a thread like this for TV and Film, but not for radio, I don’t think so anyway.
I listen to radio all day long if it is available given what I am doing and where I am, and that really means Radio 4 at home. But there is one programme that for some unknown reason I haven’t listened to before and I heard it quite by chance today while doing something else.
It is called ‘The Naked Week’ and it is fronted by a very witty man called Andrew Hunter-Murray. He was probably, to me anyway, the least appreciated of the team of QI Elves that ran/runs a podcast called ‘No Such Thing as a Fish’, which I use to listen to on nights out during the heyday of delivering dogs throughout the EU before covid.
As I found that hilarious it is even more surprising that I, until now, missed this. No longer, a supreme pisstake on politicians and politics and, in the middle of writing an email in French (which requires concentration for grammar etc.) I was forced to leave the keys and listen. I urge anyone here to do the same. 
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I second that.
At the date of writing (15/03/2025) this is the second week of the second series.
The beginning of the first series wasn’t so good, but it matured over time & they’ve hit the ground running with the current series.
I really enjoy ‘The News in Haikus’.
Is that another programme? I haven’t heard of it, but I do like Hiakus and used to write them, and even published some, firstly in the Guardian, and then in a book. 
No, it’s one of the segments in The Naked Week.
If it was this episode then perhaps it was earlier on in the broadcast when the radio was babbling beside me and I was concentrating on SF but was gradually distracted by all the laughter and started to pay attention.
It’s a feature in every episode.
Something else to look forward to then.
Another programme that I have become addicted to is ‘Conversations From a Long Marriage’, starring the excellent Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam.
It is deliciously funny and touching by turns and not to be missed. I never deliberately mark programmes to listen to but as it seems always to be when I am sitting here, and Radio 4 is always on beside me, I rarely miss it.
Everybody knows Miss Lumley, surely, but I had never heard of Roger Allam until he appeared as the Inspector to Morse in the prequel to the latter’s career as a detective, Endeavour.
Roger Allam - for the life of me I can’t remember which early series he was in as a somewhat frustrated youngish police inspector that knew the stars of the show were guilty of something, but could never prove it.
Was it Minder?
Thanks SuePJ- I had checked that and a few other sources. I am certain it was a much older series than Endeavour. Of the era of The Sweeney, The Professionals, and particularly Minder but for the life of me I can’t find whichever it was, listed.
In it he had a great line in sarcasm as yet again he couldn’t pin anything on the stars of the show - and ISTR it might have been George Cole and Dennis Waterman in Minder. HIs name might have been Inspector Chisholm. EDIT Grrr turns out that was Patrick Malahide.
I also recall seeing a very young Roger Allam in an old Avengers episode with Diana Rigg - that I do remember but it’s not listed either.
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