What If

Last Edited: 22-Oct-2019
A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date Title Cast Parameters
02-Jan-1991 to
23-Jan-1991
  1. Hitler Had Beaten Russia In 1941
  2. Labour Had Won The 1951 Election
  3. Kennedy Had Not Been Killed
  4. The Conservatives Had Won the 1974 General Election

4 files
1:38:40, 22.5 MB, S
12-Jun-1991 to
04-Jul-1991





01-Feb-1992
  1. Britain Had Lost The Falklands War
  2. Northern Ireland Had Four Counties Not Six
  3. Enoch Powell Had Remained A Conservative MP
  4. The 1979 Referendum Had Led To A Scottish
    National Assembly (missing)

Special: Columbus Had Not Discovered America (missing)


3 files
1:11:54, 16.4 MB, S
04-Aug-1992 to
08-Sep-1992
  1. Drugs Were To Be Legalised
  2. The Press Council Had Been Strengthened in 1977
  3. There Had Been No 1969 Divorce Act
  4. There Had Been No Beeching Report
  5. There Had Been No 1944 Education Act (missing)
  6. Hugh Gaitskill Had Not Died In 1964

5 files
2:16:54, 31.3 Mb, S
29-Jun-1993 to
03-Aug-1993
  1. Edward VIII Had Not Abdicated in 1936
  2. Thatcher Had Not Been Ditched in 1990
  3. Pontius Pilate Had Freed Jesus
  4. Life Had Been Discovered on Mars
  5. Harold Had Won at Hastings In 1066
  6. France Had Not Blocked UK Entry To The
    Common Market

6 files
2:44:51, 37.7 MB, S
09-Apr-1994 to
14-May-1994







05-Aug-1995
  1. The First Heart Transplant Patient Had Lived
  2. Guy Fawkes Had Succeeded
  3. There Had Been No Pay Freeze in 1966
  4. There Had Been A Referendum On Hanging
  5. Henry VIII Had Not Been Divorced
  6. The Russians Hadn’t Removed Their Missiles
    From Cuba
    (missing)

Special: The A-bomb Had Been Dropped On Berlin


6 files
2:39:07, 54.0 MB, S
20-Jul-1996 to
10-Aug-1996
Series 6
  1. The Gulf War
  2. The SDP
  3. Bonnie Prince Charlie
  4. World War I (missing)
  1. Tom King, Sir Alan Munro, Sir Patrick Hine,
    Christopher Andrew
  2. Christopher Andrew, Lord Rodgers, David Winnick,
    Anthony King
  3. Christopher Andrew, Jeremy Black, Diana Preston
  4. Christopher Andrew, Norman Stone, Niall Ferguson

Producer Ian Bell

3 files
1:23:39 38.3 Mb, S

24-May-1997 to
14-Jun-1997
Series 7
  1. the coup against Gorbachev
  2. 1588: Armada
  3. if Queen Victoria had been born male
  4. if Neil Kinnock had become prime minister
  1. Christopher Andrew, Andrei Grachev, Archie Brown,
    Stephen White
  2. Christopher Andrew
  3. Christopher Andrew
  4. Christopher Andrew, Roy Hattersley, John Biffin
Producer: Ian Bell
4 files
1:50:03, 76.3 Mb, S
18-Jun-1998 to
09-Jul-1998
Series 8
  1. if Labour leader John Smith had lived
  2. the battle of Edgehill
  3. the introduction of the NHS
  4. North Sea oil
  1. Menzies Campbell, Patrick Wintour, Christopher Andrew
  2. Christopher Andrew
  3. Christopher Andrew
  4. Christopher Andrew
Producer: Ian Bell
4 files
1:52:42, 128 MB, S
11-Mar-1999 to
01-Apr-1999
Series 9
  1. The Fire of London
  2. Alfred the Great
  3. Frederick III
  4. germ warfare
Christopher Andrew
Producer: Ian Bell
4 files
1:52:40, 64.3 MB, S
23-Mar-2000 to
13-Apr-2000
Series 10
  1. The French Revolutionise
  2. Roman emperor Constantine
  3. Farming
  4. Lord Halifax
Christopher Andrew
Producer: Ian Bell
4 files
1:51:00, 203 MB, S
8-Mar-2001 to
29-Mar-2002
Series 11
  1. Martin Luther King (missing)
  2. Waterloo
  3. The Diggers
  4. Yasser Arafat
Christopher Andrew
Producer: Ian Bell
3 files
1:15:49, 34.7 MB, S
28-Mar-2002 to
18-Apr-2002
Series 12
  1. Queen Mary Tudor had a son
  2. The First Crusade
  3. Germany defeated France in six
    weeks in 1914
  4. 1975 Referendum
Christopher Andrew
Producer: Mark Smalley
4 files
1:52:41, 51.5 MB, S
03-Apr-2003 to
24-Apr-2003
Series 13
  1. Space Race
  2. Alexander the Great Had Gone West, Not East? 
  3. George Washington Had Lost the American War of
    Independence?
  4. the Enigma code unbroken
Christopher Andrew
Producer: Mark Smalley

4 files
1:51:56, 76.8 MB, S
05-Apr-2004 to
26-Apr-2004
Series 14
  1. What if the Nazis Had Occupied Britain in 1940?
  2. What if Elizabeth I Had Married?
  3. Tiananmen Square in June 1989
  4. What if the Zulus Had Defeated the British in 1879
Christopher Andrew
Producer: Isobel Eaton

4 files
1:52:39, 103 MB, S
05-Jun-2004
Special
What if.... D-Day Had Failed?
Christopher Andrew, John Gritten, David Stafford,
Dennis Showalter
Producer: Mark Smalley
59:12, 55505, S