Pumpkin FM - Radio Britannia

Radio Britannia is Pumpkin FM's channel for classic British radio across several genres. Its programme combines drama, detective stories, science fiction, comedy and panel games with factual broadcasting, retro music, vintage advertisements and short archive extracts. The station runs around the clock, with a published timetable that makes individual series part of a continuous radio service.

Drama on Britannia occupies extended blocks, allowing longer stories to sit alongside the shorter series. Detective fiction includes Sherlock Holmes, Maigret and Father Brown, while Rumpole of the Bailey brings courtroom storytelling into the selection. The mix changes at weekends, when Baldi, Agatha Raisin and Raffles appear among the scheduled titles. These are archive productions rather than reports of current criminal cases.

Comedy and spoken-word games offer a different pace. Just a Minute, My Word and The Unbelievable Truth feature in the schedule, with Dead Ringers adding topical impression-based comedy from the archive. Science Stories and This Sceptred Isle broaden the factual side. The channel also makes room for speculative and unsettling stories through Earthsearch, The Price of Fear and weekend editions of Fear on Four.

Britannia replaced Pumpkin FM's Radio England service as part of the network's 2025 changes. That reorganisation brought a new mixed schedule alongside the more specialised BritCom channels. Pumpkin FM's preservation work includes improving poor-quality recordings and adding newly acquired series. Britannia consequently offers a broad route through the network's British archive, with documentary subjects and dramatic storytelling sharing airtime with humour and games.