Pls recommend me some gentle radio comedy

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I'm looking for gentle radio sitcoms / comedy dramas to lull me to sleep at night. I absolutely love:
In and Out of the Kitchen
Cabin Pressure
About Henry
Conversations from a Long Marriage
All the Charles Paris adaptations with Bill Nighy
To The Manor Born

Slightly darker, but I also enjoy:
The John Moffat Hercule Poirots
Pilgrim
Love in Recovery

I quite enjoyed Clare in the Community but am generally not a fan of audience laughter in my comedy - I prefer to be immersed! I don't mind a podcast (I listen to Fortunately... occasionally) but I really prefer fiction.

Can anyone recommend anything for me to listen to, please? I have Audible as well as BBC Sounds.

I can highly recommend Old Harry's Game. Full series is on BBC Sounds app.

I love the cold swedish winter on BBC sounds. About an English man who moves to Sweden with his Swedish girlfriend.

John Finnemores Souvenir Program (He wrote Cabin Pressure)
Hancocks Half Hour/ The Missing Hancocks

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ggp49 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups.

Also, John Finnemore's Double Acts. Two-handed dramas. Excellent.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g where can i find that? Love a bit of JF!

Panel game rather than storyline but surely just a minute fits the bill?

Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends BBCR4 extra and IPlayer.

Ah these are brilliant - thank you! I do love all the panel games - Just A Minute, The Unbelievable Truth, The News Quiz... but I find they're not great for switching off to - I get too involved!

I tried Double Acts ages ago but it didn't click, but will go back and listen again - thanks for the reminder. I saw JF at a literary festival a while ago and he was talking about writing them. Apparently his favourite place to write is on a train as he is sort of "trapped" so just gets on with it.

Will defo go and look up Old Harry's Game.

Meant to say that I am not a big fan of the sketch show format, unfortunately. I tend to like a longer storyline.

Thanks so much for the input so far - keep 'em coming!

I'm another Radio 4 listening insomniac!
Hut 33 is one of my favourites - WW2 code breakers at Bletchley Park who can't get along.
Double Science - two inept science teachers. It's got the guys from Horrible Histories in it. Deep Trouble has some of the same cast but they're inept submariners this time.
Second Thoughts although it's not aged so well. To Hull and Back is a nice mother / daughter comedy and Isy Sutty's Love Letters is worth a listen.
I've also really enjoyed In Living Memory and The Reunion series on BBC Sounds. They're insights into social history and quite easy listening.

Forgot to add North by Northamptonshire. Nice, gentle comedy drama series about a village. Narrated by the lady who was married to John Thaw. Lovely voice but I can't remember her name at all!

Off menu is a great podcast
Your Dead to me Via bbc sounds not strictly comedy is accessible history but nice and gentle

Oooh I love the sound of the Bletchley Park one!

I agree about Second Thoughts - generally I am
a big fan of all the 80s/90s sitcoms (a lot of them made their way onto TV and were staples when I was growing up) but I find that one a bit hard to swallow now. And I'd forgotten how much they argued!

I stumbled across No Commitments which is another Simon Brett drama (he of Charles Paris and After Henry fame) but the BBC are drip-feeding it in weekly episodes which is frustrating as I like to binge.

@ChairinSage Sheila Hancock? Love her! Will give it a try - thank you!

Old Harry's Game.
Revolting People.

Mark Steele’s In Town on iplayer.
Especially if you pick from one of the towns that you know

Have to admit, I'm not a massive fan of radio comedy but I did have Radio4 on a lot whilst trying to get through exercising last year. These two programmes tickled me. Full disclosure, John Finnemore is not my cup of tea, so apologies in advance if these aren't yours.

The Quanderhorn Xperimentations.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b8cx2z/episodes/player

The Mighty Boosh.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b007jmf4

Ed Reardon's Week

"The Men from the Ministry" is the only 'old' comedy I like on R4 Extra.

As PPs have suggested:

Old Harry's Game
Revolting People
(both Andy Hamilton)

I loved Quanderhorn. That and Cabin Pressure are the only programmes I enjoy listening to repeatedly.

Fags mags and bags is very funny. Also check out Beta Female, a recent new comedy by Amna Saleem, a Scottish/Asian writer. Both on radio 4, though not currently, will be on BBC sounds

'Welcome to our village please invade carefully' -- think it would tick your boxes. Gently amusing.

Bunk bed
It's a radio 4 podcast, gentle amusing chat designed to fall asleep to.

OP, I like all the ones you mention. Have you tried Radio 4 Extra "Mrs Sidhu Investigates"? Murder mad auntie - good fun. Simon Brett 's Charles Paris audiobooks are available online. I also recommend his Fethering series,also online. EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia books are on Audible as is a BBC dramatisation of at least one of them.

The delights of insomnia have brought me back! I am adding all these suggestions to my subscriptions/wish lists and will try them out - thank you.

Have just listened to the first episode of the Swedish one which I really enjoyed, so many thanks for that tip-off!

Where This Service Will ... a five-part comedy drama by Katherine Janeway's about two people who meet on the Paddington-Penzance train. Funny, sweet and brilliantly cast.

Jakeways not Janeway's (butt out autocorrect!)