Cult radio

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Cult radio, like cult figure and its audio-visual equivalents cult television and cult film attracts a band of aficionados devoted to a particular program. (For a fuller discussion of this sense of "cult", see cult film.)

A list of programmes that achieved cult radio status follows:

[edit] UK Cult radio programmes

• The Archers
• The Clitheroe Kid
• Dead Ringers
• Desert Island Discs
• Dick Barton
• Doctor Finlay's Casebook
• The Goon Show
• Hancock's Half Hour
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Human Zoo (radio)
• 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
• Just a Minute
• Mark and Lard
• 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).

[edit] US Cult radio programs

• Pirate Radio

[edit] Lithuanian Cult radio programmes

• Radioshow