Episodes
Published 03/25/24
Despite her diagnosis of terminal cancer in 2021, Janey’s defiantly not dead yet, and as hilarious as ever, even in the face of online haters who seem to think she’s not dying quickly enough. In this mix of stand-up and chat, Janey and her daughter and fellow comedian Ashley talk about why having cancer is like having an extramarital affair and what it’s like to be told you’re dying, and she takes to the stage to tell tales of loudmouths in hospital wards and the unlikely benefits of...
Published 03/25/24
Jazz Emu sets out to write his friends the most romantic song ever created, in order to save their crumbling relationship and make everything in his friendship group nice again. Digging back into his alternative musical archives, Jazz takes inspiration from Barry White, George Michael and ACDC in order to learn about what makes a song romantic. Armed with misguided understanding and unerring confidence, Jazz is ready to blow some minds. If music be the food of love, it’s lunchtime. Or...
Published 03/18/24
Ashley documents the ups and downs of trying to make friends while being ‘weird’ - or an undiagnosed autist. Relating more to wizards, aliens and ghosts since childhood, Ashley has developed her own unique ways of seemingly 'fitting in’, despite the confusing world of human relationships. After a childhood full of failed attempts, Ashley spent years obsessing over how to solve the problem of making friends in the only way she knows how - using strategies and methodical research within her...
Published 03/11/24
Frank & guests Simon Evans, Jessica Fostekew, Amy Gledhill and Ahir Shah find out what you think about mead, Poirot and a stinky brontosaurus. This is the panel game based on what we all sit down and do at least once a day – shop online and leave a review, as an all-star panel celebrate the good, the bad & the baffling. Everyone has an online life, and when the great British public put pen to keyboard to leave a review, they almost always write something hilarious. And our all-star...
Published 03/04/24
Amy and Chris are reporting all the action live from the 233rd Icklewick Agricultural Festival! As the festival’s newly crowned “Lady Muck”, Amy is preoccupied with her upcoming performance at the closing ceremony. Whilst first time camper, Chris is trying his best to embrace the countryside in all its beautiful, harrowing glory. Ever the renaissance man, Mr Patel has decided to try his hand at hospitality, which should be simple as long as his customers remember to eat around the teeth. The...
Published 02/26/24
"No Script. No Prep. No Clue." Mike Wozniak plays host to a panel of improv all stars in this new spontaneous game show, full of ridiculous challenges & completely made up games. Presented by Mike Wozniak. The contestants were, Josie Lawrence, Steen Raskopoulos, Cariad Lloyd, and Thomas Mayo. With additional material from Shoot From The Hip Producer: Sam Holmes Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Sound Editor: Joe Bayley A BBC Studios Production
Published 02/19/24
Can You Hear Me Now? Is a character comedian showcase for some of the best up and coming character comedians currently performing online and live on the UK comedy circuit. This episode is hosted by Jim Smith and was recorded at the historic Oran Mor venue in Glasgow - featuring posh boy rapper MC Hammersmith, Edinburgh award-winner Lorna Rose Treen, and viral character comedians Michael Fry and Eleanor Morton. Producer: Gus Beattie A Gusman production for BBC Radio 4
Published 02/12/24
POV
POV: You're listening to a brand-new sketch show that takes the comics making brilliant videos for social media and gets them to write brand new audio-only sketches, mixing them all up with rich, immersive sound design. Featuring Rachel Fairburn, Daniel Foxx, Matt Green, Rosie Holt, Emma Jones, Kelechi Okafor & Vinny Thomas Sound design by Rich Evans at Syncbox Post Produced by Ed Morrish A Lead Mojo production for BBC Radio 4.
Published 02/05/24
Maisie Adam, Stevie Martin and Johnny Cochrane prise open the coffin to assess Count Dracula in the cold light of day. Superhero powers, seductive charm and also looks great in a cape. Genius, surely? Producer: Beth O’Dea Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Audio Bristol production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
Published 01/29/24
Steph McGovern asks some seriously funny minds to offer definitive answers to the great questions of our age. Or not. Welcome to the world's most devious game of Would You Rather? With guests Jason Cook and Lauren Pattison. Host: Steph McGovern Guests: Jason Cook and Lauren Pattison Devised and written by Jon Harvey & Joseph Morpurgo With additional material from Laura Major Researcher: Leah Marks Recorded and mixed by David Thomas Producer: Jon Harvey Executive Producers: Ed Morrish and...
Published 01/22/24
We forced Artificial Intelligence to digest massive amounts of human media and then write its own versions. Everything from The One Show, Game of Thrones, Friends, Songs of Praise and more via movies, fables, adverts, Shakespeare, poetry and, er, gardening tips (and much much more) are all forever ruined by technology. We take the scripts, push them word-for-word into the mouths of actors, and the result is absurdly, joyously - and then absurdly again - hilarious. This is the comedy that...
Published 01/15/24
Comedian Ken Cheng focusses his analytical observations on school subjects. In the first of the series, Ken explores Maths, the subject that he loved until it broke him. Ken looks into popular disdain of Maths, and offers up his answers on how we turn around its public image. Producer: Rajiv Karia An EcoAudio certified production. It is a BBC Studios production for Radio 4.
Published 01/08/24
"Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal" Simon O'Hagan - Radio Times Join Henry Normal for the eleventh instalment of his acclaimed, occasional series in which the acclaimed, occasional writer tackles those subjects so big only radio can possibly contain them. So far on this journey Henry has covered the subjects of ‘Family’, ‘Life’, ‘Love’, ‘Imagination’, ‘Nature’, ‘The Universe’, ‘Communication’, ‘Ageing’, ‘Community’ and ‘Home’; in this new episode he’ll be...
Published 01/01/24
Copper turned comic Alfie Moore takes an audience through real-life crime scenarios. The topic, crime at Christmas. What's it like to be a bobby on the beat in the festive season? This merry jaunt introduces us to a fun cavalcade of Christmas characters, including a gas station Grinch, an inebriated Mary and Joseph, and a Christmas Eve saviour... Written and presented by Alfie Moore Script Editor: Will Ing Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Producer: Sam Holmes A BBC Studios...
Published 12/25/23
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star as respected novelist Florence and movie star Selina, in the second series of this sparkling comedy about two sisters at war, by David Quantick. The first series of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen? won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk award for Best Radio Sitcom. “Thank you, Mr Quantick – this is nigh on perfect” Radio Times And now Dawn, Jennifer and David return with Series 2. Episode one: Mummy Dearest Lucy,...
Published 12/18/23
In this week's show, apart from helping her clients with her patented (patent pending) therapy techniques, Nora also gives tips for de-stressing, getting to sleep and a patented (patent pending) psychometric careers test. Finally, after a busy week, Nora tries to unwind with a trip to an acupuncturist… Nora Meadows ..… Katy Wix Chris and JP van der Voss ..… David Elms Claire ….. Emily Lloyd-Saini Brian ….. Sunil Patel Gwen ….. Shivani Thussu Saz ….. Lorna Rose Treen Written and directed by...
Published 12/11/23
Joining Kiri this week are Dr Lindsey Fitzharris who brings with her a Victorian clockwork surgical saw to demonstrate why failure can sometimes be the best medicine, Professor Kevin Harrington explains how he uses molecular scissors to modify the Herpes virus to attack cancer cells and we hear from his patient Nigel who went from palliative care to cancer-free, Dr Aravinthan Varatharaj talks about playing detective when diagnosing neurological diseases, and comedian Dr Matt Winning says...
Published 12/04/23
Comedians Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill, aka The Delightful Sausage, tackle big questions from the curious minds of little kids. We kick off the series with an inventive question from Freddie. Amy and Chris learn all about Thomas Edison and find out the unsettling consequences of eating way too many boiled eggs. They also meet Nirmal, their BBC-appointed Expertologist. Cast Chris Cantrill Amy Gledhill Sunil Patel Richard David-Caine Written by Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill Researcher -...
Published 11/27/23
Comedian Glenn Moore looks in his almanac at major world events and what he was doing at the time. In this episode, a Royal Wedding is the backdrop to a massive crisis in Glenn’s own love life. Perhaps best-known for his outrageously brilliant one-liners on Mock The Week , Glenn delivers a tale of comic mishaps and extraordinary scenes interwoven with a big event in history – and looks back through his almanac to find out other strange connections to the day as well. Written by Glenn with...
Published 11/20/23
We have all been in a situation where we don’t know what to say, or how best to support a friend during a major negative life event. When Laura Smyth was diagnosed with breast cancer she was blown away (and highly amused) at how poorly many around her responded to the news. From pulling the wrong face, to offering medical advice sourced on YouTube, to simply panicking and saying nothing at all… we have a tendency to put our foot in it. In this half-hour special, Laura applies her...
Published 11/13/23
Bake Off superstar Nadiya Hussain tells Shaun why Bangladesh is the perfect watery destination for a canal-loving man from Lancashire. Shaun fancies wearing a lungi in the shade of a banana tree, but will he be able to cope with water snakes, leeches and 100% humidity? Resident geographer, historian and comedian Iszi Lawrence really wants to find out. Your Place Or Mine is the travel series that isn’t going anywhere. Join Shaun as his guests try to convince him that it’s worth getting up off...
Published 11/06/23
How important is it for movie producers to get the science right? Brian Cox and Robin Ince discover why some surprising movies have scientific advisers and ask if there is any science in The Simpsons? They question the existence of fictional wormholes, while comedian Ross Noble can’t believe there may be actually be a space time portal shaped like a pair of trousers. Some writers are even accurate by accident, as comic book author Alan Moore discovers when he tells Brian about one of his...
Published 10/30/23
Kenyan-born comedian Njambi McGrath exposes the devastating impact of British colonisers on her grandmother's life and how the legacy of racism affects her own life in the UK today. Originally from Kenya but living in London with her white husband and British children for over a decade, Njambi McGrath finds herself in a tricky position, quite literally in bed with the coloniser! Exploring the past to find answers for the present, she compares her grandmother’s life under imperialist...
Published 10/23/23
Daliso Chaponda is back for a fourth series. Episode 1 - Monsters Under The Bed. In this new series, Daliso is in a more philosophical mood. We find him working through his thoughts, feelings, and opinions by sharing his stories with a live audience in his hometown of Manchester. Since his last series, Daliso has become a British Citizen and is looking forward to talking about anything other than being a migrant. To prove he’s no longer a 'Citizen of Nowhere', he’s decided to write silly...
Published 10/16/23