Recommend me some episodic story-based podcats

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I enjoy listening to podcasts (I’m really into my newly discovered “Miles and Rachel Explain the X-Men”), but almost everyone I have run into is an interview/opinion show.

I recently listened to the BBC Radio show “Cabin Pressure” - a hilarious radio sit-com about a down and out one-plane “airline” and want more, but can’t find anything similar. I have resorted to listening to old 30’s and 40’s radio shows, but would love something more contemporary.

And before you ask - yes, I have plenty of Audiobooks to listen to, but would like some narrative-based, episodic, fictional shows - preferably (but not required to be) family friendly enough for car trips with the kids. Comedy or drama is fine.

Thanks in advance.

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Welcome to Nightvale and The Thrilling Adventure Hour are the two big ones.
There’s also We’re Alive which just finished up. (The Walking Dead as a a modern audio drama)

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There are many other BBC Radio sitcoms, not sure which (if any) are available as podcasts (Cabin Pressure isn’t, I don’t think?)

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Bleak Expectations is pretty funny. Rips on Charles Dickens and other period pieces. The humour is a mix of* Blackadder *and The Goons.

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Did you see the thread about Cabin Pressure?

Let’s talk about the funniest British comedy of the last decade

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Thank you for all the suggestions.

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Maybe News From Lake Wobegon? Not sure if it’s available in podcast form, but maybe. I don’t even know if the Prairie Home Companion is still being produced, but they must have 30+ years of material archived.