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Explore the deadpan comedy of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding in Bob and Ray, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Their radio work plays with broadcasting itself: mock interviews, invented advertisements, recurring characters, soap-opera parody and conversations that turn ordinary assumptions upside down.   This collection contains 428 preserved archive recordings, with source-file dates spanning 1948–1973 alongside undated material. It includes named sketches, dated broadcasts, compilation volumes and library reels. Dates and reference numbers identify the source files; unknown dates remain unconfirmed. Repeated sketches retain separate archive identifiers.   Choose a recording, follow Bob and Ray, and discover more classic radio comedy and satire in Heritage Radio Vault.

  1. 1d ago

    Bob and Ray: A Selection of Skits 1 | Deadpan Radio Comedy Collection

    The voices sound perfectly serious. The conversation is heading somewhere wonderfully ridiculous. Welcome to Bob and Ray. A Selection of Skits 1 collects approximately 56 minutes of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s radio comedy. Their deadpan delivery makes the familiar language of broadcasting a playground for absurd conversations, unlikely personalities and gently dismantled conventions. For new listeners, this archive compilation offers a longer introduction to the duo’s style. For returning fans, it provides room to settle into the pauses, precision and understated exchanges that distinguish their work. Choose this recording when you want classic sketch comedy that rewards close listening. The humour depends as much on how a line is delivered as on the words themselves. Recording: A Selection of Skits 1 Performers: Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding Collection: Bob and Ray Format: Archive sketch compilation, approximately 56 minutes Recording dates: Individual dates not confirmed in the source archive. Presented by Heritage Radio Vault. Follow Bob and Ray for more vintage radio satire, deadpan sketches and classic comedy. Heritage Radio Vault — More Comedy to Discover   Enjoying Bob and Ray? Follow this collection and return to another preserved sketch, broadcast or archive compilation.   Listen next   Blondie Explore the Bumsteads’ classic family radio comedy.   Archie Andrews Continue with another collection of family and teenage comedy.   An Evening with Groucho Hear Groucho Marx in live concert recordings from 1972.   Abroad with the Lockharts Discover another classic radio comedy collection.   Find your next programme Explore Heritage Radio Vault for comedy, satire, adventure, mystery, science fiction and drama.   Follow the shows you enjoy and share a favourite recording with another classic radio listener.

  2. Oct 18

    Bob and Ray – A Discussion about Nuclear Weapons | Radio Comedy

    A Discussion about Nuclear Weapons   Listen to this preserved Bob and Ray recording, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s comedy uses deadpan conversation, parody interviews, invented advertisements and recurring characters to play with the conventions of broadcasting.   Source-file date: 1949-07-19. These labels identify the source archive and are not treated as independent proof of an original transmission.   Follow Bob and Ray and discover more classic radio comedy in Heritage Radio Vault. Heritage Radio Vault — More Comedy to Discover   Enjoying Bob and Ray? Follow this collection and return to another preserved sketch, broadcast or archive compilation.   Listen next   Blondie Explore the Bumsteads’ classic family radio comedy.   Archie Andrews Continue with another collection of family and teenage comedy.   An Evening with Groucho Hear Groucho Marx in live concert recordings from 1972.   Abroad with the Lockharts Discover another classic radio comedy collection.   Find your next programme Explore Heritage Radio Vault for comedy, satire, adventure, mystery, science fiction and drama.   Follow the shows you enjoy and share a favourite recording with another classic radio listener.

  3. Oct 18

    Bob and Ray – A Discussion about Salvador Dali | Radio Comedy

    A Discussion about Salvador Dali   Listen to this preserved Bob and Ray recording, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s comedy uses deadpan conversation, parody interviews, invented advertisements and recurring characters to play with the conventions of broadcasting.   Source-file date: 1949-07-15. These labels identify the source archive and are not treated as independent proof of an original transmission.   Follow Bob and Ray and discover more classic radio comedy in Heritage Radio Vault. Heritage Radio Vault — More Comedy to Discover   Enjoying Bob and Ray? Follow this collection and return to another preserved sketch, broadcast or archive compilation.   Listen next   Blondie Explore the Bumsteads’ classic family radio comedy.   Archie Andrews Continue with another collection of family and teenage comedy.   An Evening with Groucho Hear Groucho Marx in live concert recordings from 1972.   Abroad with the Lockharts Discover another classic radio comedy collection.   Find your next programme Explore Heritage Radio Vault for comedy, satire, adventure, mystery, science fiction and drama.   Follow the shows you enjoy and share a favourite recording with another classic radio listener.

  4. Oct 18

    Bob and Ray – A Selection of Skits 2 | Archive Compilation

    A Selection of Skits 2   Listen to this preserved Bob and Ray recording, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s comedy uses deadpan conversation, parody interviews, invented advertisements and recurring characters to play with the conventions of broadcasting.   Archive compilation reference: A Selection of Skits 2. Its individual recording dates are unconfirmed. These labels identify the source archive and are not treated as independent proof of an original transmission.   Follow Bob and Ray and discover more classic radio comedy in Heritage Radio Vault. Heritage Radio Vault — More Comedy to Discover   Enjoying Bob and Ray? Follow this collection and return to another preserved sketch, broadcast or archive compilation.   Listen next   Blondie Explore the Bumsteads’ classic family radio comedy.   Archie Andrews Continue with another collection of family and teenage comedy.   An Evening with Groucho Hear Groucho Marx in live concert recordings from 1972.   Abroad with the Lockharts Discover another classic radio comedy collection.   Find your next programme Explore Heritage Radio Vault for comedy, satire, adventure, mystery, science fiction and drama.   Follow the shows you enjoy and share a favourite recording with another classic radio listener.

  5. Oct 18

    Bob and Ray – A Selection of Skits 3 | Archive Compilation

    A Selection of Skits 3   Listen to this preserved Bob and Ray recording, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s comedy uses deadpan conversation, parody interviews, invented advertisements and recurring characters to play with the conventions of broadcasting.   Archive compilation reference: A Selection of Skits 3. Its individual recording dates are unconfirmed. These labels identify the source archive and are not treated as independent proof of an original transmission.   Follow Bob and Ray and discover more classic radio comedy in Heritage Radio Vault. Heritage Radio Vault — More Comedy to Discover   Enjoying Bob and Ray? Follow this collection and return to another preserved sketch, broadcast or archive compilation.   Listen next   Blondie Explore the Bumsteads’ classic family radio comedy.   Archie Andrews Continue with another collection of family and teenage comedy.   An Evening with Groucho Hear Groucho Marx in live concert recordings from 1972.   Abroad with the Lockharts Discover another classic radio comedy collection.   Find your next programme Explore Heritage Radio Vault for comedy, satire, adventure, mystery, science fiction and drama.   Follow the shows you enjoy and share a favourite recording with another classic radio listener.

  6. Oct 18

    Bob and Ray – A Show in One Minute | Radio Comedy

    A Show in One Minute   Listen to this preserved Bob and Ray recording, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s comedy uses deadpan conversation, parody interviews, invented advertisements and recurring characters to play with the conventions of broadcasting.   Source-file date: 1949-08-01. These labels identify the source archive and are not treated as independent proof of an original transmission.   Follow Bob and Ray and discover more classic radio comedy in Heritage Radio Vault. Heritage Radio Vault — More Comedy to Discover   Enjoying Bob and Ray? Follow this collection and return to another preserved sketch, broadcast or archive compilation.   Listen next   Blondie Explore the Bumsteads’ classic family radio comedy.   Archie Andrews Continue with another collection of family and teenage comedy.   An Evening with Groucho Hear Groucho Marx in live concert recordings from 1972.   Abroad with the Lockharts Discover another classic radio comedy collection.   Find your next programme Explore Heritage Radio Vault for comedy, satire, adventure, mystery, science fiction and drama.   Follow the shows you enjoy and share a favourite recording with another classic radio listener.

  7. Oct 18

    Bob and Ray – A Tribute to Bill Green | Radio Comedy

    A Tribute to Bill Green   Listen to this preserved Bob and Ray recording, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s comedy uses deadpan conversation, parody interviews, invented advertisements and recurring characters to play with the conventions of broadcasting.   Source-file date: 1949-08-25. These labels identify the source archive and are not treated as independent proof of an original transmission.   Follow Bob and Ray and discover more classic radio comedy in Heritage Radio Vault. Heritage Radio Vault — More Comedy to Discover   Enjoying Bob and Ray? Follow this collection and return to another preserved sketch, broadcast or archive compilation.   Listen next   Blondie Explore the Bumsteads’ classic family radio comedy.   Archie Andrews Continue with another collection of family and teenage comedy.   An Evening with Groucho Hear Groucho Marx in live concert recordings from 1972.   Abroad with the Lockharts Discover another classic radio comedy collection.   Find your next programme Explore Heritage Radio Vault for comedy, satire, adventure, mystery, science fiction and drama.   Follow the shows you enjoy and share a favourite recording with another classic radio listener.

  8. Oct 18

    Bob and Ray – A Visit by Schoolchildren | Radio Comedy

    A Visit by Schoolchildren   Listen to this preserved Bob and Ray recording, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding’s comedy uses deadpan conversation, parody interviews, invented advertisements and recurring characters to play with the conventions of broadcasting.   Source-file date: 1951-05-01. These labels identify the source archive and are not treated as independent proof of an original transmission.   Follow Bob and Ray and discover more classic radio comedy in Heritage Radio Vault. Heritage Radio Vault — More Comedy to Discover   Enjoying Bob and Ray? Follow this collection and return to another preserved sketch, broadcast or archive compilation.   Listen next   Blondie Explore the Bumsteads’ classic family radio comedy.   Archie Andrews Continue with another collection of family and teenage comedy.   An Evening with Groucho Hear Groucho Marx in live concert recordings from 1972.   Abroad with the Lockharts Discover another classic radio comedy collection.   Find your next programme Explore Heritage Radio Vault for comedy, satire, adventure, mystery, science fiction and drama.   Follow the shows you enjoy and share a favourite recording with another classic radio listener.

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Explore the deadpan comedy of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding in Bob and Ray, presented by Heritage Radio Vault.   Their radio work plays with broadcasting itself: mock interviews, invented advertisements, recurring characters, soap-opera parody and conversations that turn ordinary assumptions upside down.   This collection contains 428 preserved archive recordings, with source-file dates spanning 1948–1973 alongside undated material. It includes named sketches, dated broadcasts, compilation volumes and library reels. Dates and reference numbers identify the source files; unknown dates remain unconfirmed. Repeated sketches retain separate archive identifiers.   Choose a recording, follow Bob and Ray, and discover more classic radio comedy and satire in Heritage Radio Vault.

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