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And Now in Colour

BBC Radio 4 comedy programme

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ4753339 ↗
Source-derived summary

And Now in Colour is a radio comedy programme that aired on BBC Radio 4 for two series (each consisting of six half-hour episodes) and two half-hour Christmas specials between March 1990 and December 1991. It starred Tim Firth, Tim de Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck and has since been repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra, most recently in 2025.

References

External links

And Now in Colour at BBC Online

Lavalie, John. "And Now in Colour" EpGuides. 21 Jul 2005. 29 Jul 2005.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “And Now in Colour” is bBC Radio 4 comedy programme. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Colour, Radio and comedy, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1991, 2025, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Colour, Radio and comedy is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “bBC Radio 4 comedy programme” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4753339. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1991, 2025 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “And Now in Colour” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.