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A BBC radio comedy programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1980 to 1987.The show was based around an imaginary local radio station and the programmes that it might transmit.Characters on the show were mostly named after pieces of sound equipment, including rising star Mike Flex (Perkins), fading star Mike Channel (Deayton), "children's favourite" "Uncle" Mike Stand (Stevens) and the food-obsessed Anna Daptor (Atkinson-Wood). Also on the station's staff were the incomprehensible Nigel Pry (Pope), the incompetent Martin Brown (Stevens), the carefully enunciated "oh-so-daring" Mike Hunt (Pope), brusque owner Sir Norman Tonsil (Deayton), Norwegian correspondent Oivind Vinstra (Perkins), whose command of English was negligible, and Head of Religious Affairs the Right Reverend Reverend Wright (Deayton), who had a mail-order bride. Other regular characters were unsympathetic agony aunt Anna Rabies (Atkinson-Wood) and singing doctor Philip Percygo (Pope).Other parodic elements inclu