Stuart Maconie presents a selection of recovered BBC radio shows.
A SELECTION of previously-missing radio shows including the untransmitted pilot of It Sticks Out Half a Mileare currently on the BBC iPlayer.
Some of Our Archives Were Missing, presented by Stuart Maconie, offers a selection of shows previously thought lost, but since returned to the BBC Archive.
The three-hour show – repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Saturday, April 30, and available to listen to again until Friday, May 6, 2011 – features:
- It Sticks Out Half a Mile (1981)
- Comedy Parade: Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bolshie Man (1971)
- Thirty Minute Theatre: The Green Machine (1975)
- Story Time: Eyewitness Accounts – The Great Fire of London (1970)
- Things Could Be Worse (1976)
- The Worst Show on the Wireless (1975)
First broadcast in 2004 on BBC7, Some of Our Archives Were Missing features programmes returned to the BBC through its now-defunct BBC Archive Treasure Hunt campaign.
Wiped News 
Until 15 October, there is an episode of The Worst Show on the Wireless available on BBC Radio 4 Extra
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007lm74
as part of a three-hour programme, “Somebody laughed Eddie Braben special”