Cult radio

Cult radio, like its audio-visual equivalents cult television and cult film attracts a hardy band of aficionados who have diverse opinions as to the cult status or otherwise of particular offerings. (For a fuller discussion of this sense of "cult", see cult film.)

A list of programmes that achieved cult radio status follows:

UK Cult radio programmes

• The Archers
• The Clitheroe Kid[?]
• Desert Island Discs
• Dick Barton[?]
• Doctor Finlay's Casebook[?]
• The Goon Show
• Hancock's Half Hour
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and the integral "game" called Mornington Crescent
• I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again - the radio precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• The Navy Lark[?]
• The News Huddlines[?]
• The Perfumed Garden[?]
• Quote Unquote[?]
• Radio Active
• Round the Horne
• Take It From Here, particularly the integral serial known as "The Glums"
• Top Gear[?] (a pop music programme, not the BBC car programme of the same name).