Editing Radio Active (radio series) (section)

==Transmission==
The original broadcasts took place on [[BBC Radio 4]] between 1980 and 1988 (as detailed in the table below). One special from the same team (''The Hee Bee Gee Bees Story'') premiered on [[BBC Radio 2]]; uniquely this edition was presented as a straightforward [[mockumentary]], narrated by disc jockey [[Paul Burnett]].

Episodes from the series were repeated on Radio 4 in late 2002, and again on classic comedy radio station [[BBC 7]] in 2003, late 2004, early 2005 and mid-2006 and again in 2007.

A new one-off episode of ''Radio Active'', the first for 15 years, was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]] in December 2002.

The third episode of series 7 ("The God Alone Knows Show") caused many complaints on its first transmission and so was edited for the mid-week repeat and all later broadcasts. In particular, in the broadcast church service near the start of the episode, the inability of any of the congregation to recite the [[Lord's Prayer]] correctly was replaced with a request for two girls in the front row to turn off their [[Sony Walkman]]s. The new translation of the [[Bible]] (by "Honest Ron") was also heavily edited; the new [[Ten Commandments]] were changed to remove two which were originally of a sexual nature (replaced by "thou shalt not listen to the [[Beastie Boys]]" and "thou shalt not support [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]]"). A description of the cover (which Ron attempts to pass off as a depiction of [[Mary Magdalene]], but is actually a reproduction or re-creation of the famous [[Tennis Girl]] poster) was deleted completely. To make up the lost time, the preceding article was lengthened with a few extra lines.