Jeremy Hardy to feature in various comedy shows including "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989), and has presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of "Top of the Pops" in 1996. He was one of the two team captains on the BBC Two game show "If I Ruled the World" that ran for two series in 1998–1999. He has become best known for his work on BBC Radio 4, particularly on "The News Quiz", "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" and his long-running series of monologues "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation". His
Radio comedy Way. Many of the BBC's most successful television comedies began life as radio shows. These include "Hancock's Half Hour", "Goodness Gracious Me", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "The League of Gentlemen", "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", "Room 101", "Have I Got News For You", (based on Radio 4's "The News Quiz"), "Dead Ringers" and most recently "Little Britain" and "Absolute Power". The science fiction comedy "Red Dwarf" was developed from ideas in a radio show called "Son Of Cliché". Another science fiction comedy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was created for radio, but also went on to great success in