Anyone interested in Chris Morris, satirist par excellence (The Day Today, Brasseye, etc), will find Cook'd and Bomb'd of great interest (link via Metafilter). It's a fan site with many downloads: the On The Hour page gives links to downloads of both the Series 1 and Series 2 broadcasts.
When Armando Iannucci, the producer of Radio 1's cutting edge comedy series The Mary Whitehouse Experience, heard Chris Morris reading out some of his ridiculous but also faintly plausible mock news stories on GLR, he contacted Morris to suggest that they should collaborate on a series. The result was On The Hour, a slick parody of current affairs broadcasting, that shoehorned Morris' surreal stories and interviews into an alarmingly convincing pastiche news presentation style, attacking everything from war reporting to the BBC's time signal along the way. Morris presented the show, in addition to writing it in conjunction with Iannucci, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, David Quantick, Steven Wells and Andrew Glover, and acting as associate producer. On The Hour was without question a groundbreaking landmark in radio comedy, and went on to win several awards including the 1992 Writer's Guild award for Best Comedy. Twelve episodes were made between 1991 and 1992, as well as a short special for Radio 1. All episodes exist in the BBC's archives, and a compilation of two hours of material is available on a BBC Radio Collection cassette.
