Editing Week Ending (section)

{{Short description|Satirical British comedy radio programme}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox radio show
| show_name    = Week Ending
| format       = [[Satirical]] [[sketch comedy]]
| runtime      = 25 mins<!-- See BBC Genome/Radio Times website before changing. -->
| country      = United Kingdom
| language     = English
| home_station = [[BBC Radio 4]]
| starring     =
| creator      = {{ubl|[[Simon Brett]]|[[David Hatch]]}}
| writer       = 
| first_aired  = {{start date|1970|04|04|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Week Ending... 4 April |date=1970-04-02 |magazine=[[Radio Times]]|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/992af4efa4cd40dba08158334beca893 |page=23 |access-date=2021-04-02 |issue=2421 |edition=London/South East |volume=187 |issn=0033-8060 |publisher=[[BBC Magazines]]}}</ref>
| last_aired   = {{end date|1998|04|03|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Week Ending |date=1998-03-26 |magazine=[[Radio Times]]|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c5c96f893578423eaf75af1f3a6f7532 |page=125 |access-date=2021-04-02 |issue=3868 |edition=London |volume=296 |issn=0033-8060 |publisher=[[BBC Magazines]]}}</ref>
| num_episodes = 1,132 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/week_ending/|title=Week Ending|access-date=2021-04-02|website=[[British Comedy Guide]]}}</ref>
| opentheme    = {{hlist|"Smokey Joe"|"[[Party Fears Two]]" by [[Associates (band)|The Associates]]|}}
}}

'''''Week Ending''''' was a [[satire|satirical]] radio current affairs sketch show broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]] between 1970 and 1998. It was devised by writer-producers [[Simon Brett]] and [[David Hatch]] and was originally hosted by ''[[Nationwide (TV series)|Nationwide]]'' presenter [[Michael Barratt (television presenter)|Michael Barratt]].

The show's title was always announced as "Week Ending..." followed by the broadcast date, although the [[ellipsis]] was dropped from its billed title in ''[[Radio Times]]'' during the mid-1970s. The show was written and recorded shortly before the first broadcast (which was usually on a Friday evening) and satirised events of the week. Each show concluded with "And now here is Next Week's News", although this collection of one-liners was abandoned in the early 1990s. Short gags were thereafter scattered throughout the show. Relatively few editions survive in the BBC archives, and they are rarely repeated.