Stop the Week is a British radio discussion programme chaired by Robert Robinson, which ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1974 to 1992.
The BBC Radio's Current Affairs Department decided that it wanted a programme that would act as a bookend to Monday morning's Start the Week with Richard Baker, which had been running for about four years.
Each week a panel of four or five, drawn from a pool of 'regulars', would discuss a number of topics, usually more or less frivolous, such as "Is Dan Maskell posh?"
Among the regulars were Ann Leslie, Laurie Taylor, Milton Shulman, Benny Green, Nicholas Tucker, Dr Anthony Clare, Dr Michael O'Donnell, Edward Blishen, Rosalind Miles, Stephen Oliver, Sarah Harrison, Jasper Griffin, Christopher Page, Philip Oakes, Matthew Parris and Roger Royle.
The musical interlude was provided by regulars such as Mervyn Stutter, Instant Sunshine, Jeremy Nicholas, Fascinating Aïda (or Dillie Keane alone), Peter Skellern and Jungr and Parker.