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Comedy Programme Title Episode Commissi Commissioning Proposal Synopsis No oning Brief Description Brief No A Charles Paris Mystery: Dead by Jeremy Front. Bill Nighy stars as actor cum amateur sleuth Charles Paris. Charles is appearing in a revival Room Farce 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy of a 70's farce but its stars are hiding some shady secrets. A Charles Paris Mystery: Startrap 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy Bill Nighy returns as the loveably louche actor cum amateur sleuth Charles Paris. Matt is 25 and has cerebral palsy. Of course his isn't the defining thing about him - Matt is funny and clever and "up for stuff." He's also aware that he's less likely to get the blame for anything. Not that he would ever take Ability 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy advantage of this. Not Matt.. Alexei Sayle's highly acclaimed hilarious short stories dramatised for the radio starring some of the UK's Alexei Sayle's Mystery Theatre 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy foremost comic actors and introduced and narrated by the author. Much-loved poet comedienne and broadcaster Pam Ayres brings a new collection of poems anecdotes and sketches to Radio 4. Appearing alongside her on stage in the sketches are Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Ayres on the Air 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy Whitehead who plays her long-suffering husband Gordon. Believe it - Series 4 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy A fourth series of Richard Wilson's "Radiography" Freddie Fox stars as Lord Byron and Miles Jupp as James Boswell ,time travelling biographer, recalling the Boswell's Lives 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy lives of legends alive and dead in Jon Canter's comedy series. Conversations from a Long Marriage at Christmas 1/1 47013 1130 Comedy Another episode of the show about a long term married couple starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. Cracking Up returns for Series 2- Following further the adventures of Spencer Pandy... With nearly 50% of marriages ending in divorce there are millions of families trying to negotiate a way forward with children trailing in their wake. Spencer Pandy a 'qualified psychotherapist and trauma counsellor thinks he has the answer if Cracking Up (Series 2) 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy only his ex-wife and kids would listen. Fenella Woolgar returns as the wickedly ambitious Dot who's determined to go up in the world and no bally war is getting in her way. More capers more silliness more pettiness and daring-do from our formidable heroine and Dot Series 3 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy the gals from the Cabinet War Rooms. Everyone's favourite Scottish corner shop Fags Mags and Bags is dependable and reliable. The service is Fags Mags and Bags 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy friendly and they'll rummage around to find exactly what you want when you need it. Gloomsbury (Series 5) 1/6 47013 1130 Comedy The fifth series and last series of Sue Limb's much loved Gloomsbury. In the first of two programmes, comedian Shappi Khorsandi takes a witty, personal look at the state of UK Homework 1/2 47013 1130 Comedy education - talking to old school mates, comedians and experts. It's A Fair Cop 1/5 47013 1130 Comedy Alfie Moore asks his audience to make the policing decisions in a real life case scenario. A non-audience character comedy series written by Jeremy Front and starring both Jeremy and Rebecca Front as Jack and Millie Lemman - an older couple who are fully engaged with contemporary life whilst being at war Jack & Millie 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy with the absurdities of the modern world. Josh Howie's Losing It (Series Two) 1/6 47013 1130 Comedy Series two of the sitcom in which Josh now has to deal with life with a new born baby. In this four-part series Lemn Sissay uses his experience of organising the Care Leavers' Christmas Dinner as the starting point for an exploration of charity social enterprise and good works through stand-up, poetry and Lemn Sissay's Social Enterprise 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy interview. A funny and warm-hearted Scottish series about love, loss and grief, by award winning writer Michael Chaplin ( Monarch of The Glen, 2 Pipe Problems, The Stanley Baxter Playhouse and Tommies).This title will probably Leo's Ladies 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy change. V3 LL 01/03/2018 Page 1 Upcoming Programmes 2018-19.xlsx Comedy Programme Title Episode Commissi Commissioning Proposal Synopsis No oning Brief Description Brief No Michael Frayn's Pocket Playhouse 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy Martin Jarvis directs a second series of Frayn’s masterly comic sketches. It's been 5 years since we last heard from the post grads who aspired to change the world. When we last saw them their stupidity and self-serving priorities often destined them to repeat the sins of generations of politicians Party - series 4 1/1 47013 1130 Comedy before them. Surely they will have grown up by now? Written by Tom Basden. Every year thousands of tourists flock to the Lake District. But one place they never go to is Plum House-the former home of terrible poet George Pudding (1779-1848). Now a crumbling museum losing money hand over fist it struggles to stay open under it's eccentric curator Peter Knight. Starring Jane Horrocks and Simon Callow Plum House 1/6 47013 1130 Comedy and written by Ben Cottam and Paul McKenzie. Two very different women do their best to prepare for the worst - and make a podcast about it. Written by Prepper (Series 1) 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy Caroline and James Moran. RELATIVITY SERIES 2 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy Another series for Richard Herring's finely nuanced family comedy. A two part special to commemorate Spike Milligan's centenary. Drawing on over 500 hours of audio recordings Spike Milligan: Inside Out 1/2 47013 1130 Comedy between Spike and his biographer, the shows will provide a unique insight into his comedy. The Break is a half-hour sitcom by Ian Brown and James Hendrie award winning comedy writers for Radio and TV. Its all-star cast features Philip Jackson Tom Palmer Alison Steadman Mark Benton Shobna Gulati and Rasmus Hardiker. Andy has come to his uncle's seaside home for a rest. All he wants is a quiet life away from the stress of the city. However what he gets is Uncle Jeff. And oddly, the town has been taken over by Brad Pitt The Break Series 2 1/6 47013 1130 Comedy and some Hollywood Nazis. We follow the experiences of Geoff Scott and his Swedish girlfriend Linda as they embrace life in Sweden; giving Radio 4 listeners a funny warm-hearted and thought-provoking insight into a country and society that seem to endlessly fascinate us Brits.Series 4 of The Cold Swedish Winterwritten by Danny Robins will see The Cold Swedish Winter 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy Geoff and Linda enter a new phase of life - finally married, mostly employed and facing life in a new Europe. The Joanna Lumley Playhouse 1/1 47013 1130 Comedy Joanna Lumley stars in a one-off playhouse written by award winning Veep writer Georgia Pritchett. England 1952. Churchill is Prime Minister for the last time. Rationing is still in force. All music sounds like the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. People like living in 1952: it's familiar and reassuring and Britain knows its place The Quanderhorn in the world. Few have noticed it's been 1952 for the past 65 years. New sci fi comedy from Rob Grant and Xperimentations 1/6 47013 1130 Comedy Andrew Marshall. Michael Palin loves a limerick whether clever surprising or obscene- or all three. He's been writing them on and There Was A Young Fellow off for the last thirty years.Michael hosts a limerick evening - with some high-end celebrity guests from his little Named Palin 1/1 47013 1130 Comedy black book. Another special episode of the sci-fi adventure written by and starring Simon Kane. The cast includes John Time Spanner 1/1 47013 1130 Comedy Finnemore and David Mitchell. Victoria Wood - From Soup To Two comedy specials featuring Victoria Wood with unheard and rarely-heard material from the earliest days of Nuts 1/2 47013 1130 Comedy her career to her most recent work. An adaptation of John O'Farrell's hilarious new memoir which explores the political turmoil of the last two Where Did We Go Right? 1/4 47013 1130 Comedy decades - via John's stories of accidentally being at the heart of all the moments that mattered. Zoe Lyons was raised in Ireland. As a child she lived in a place so isolated that their phone number was '5' and she had a pet lamb like in the nursery rhyme. None of this seemed relevant until recently except as a sweet Zoe Lyons: Passport Paddy 1/2 47013 1130 Comedy anecdote. But things changed: Brexit happened. V3 LL 01/03/2018 Page 2 Upcoming Programmes 2018-19.xlsx Comedy Programme Title Episode Commissi Commissioning Proposal Synopsis No oning Brief Description Brief No Alex Edelman's Peer Group - Series 2 1/4 47031 1830 Comedy A second series of millennial-themed stand-up from award-winning comedian Alex Edelman. ALONE written by Moray Hunter, returns for a six-part series about five single middle-aged neighbours living in a converted North London house who it seems can't get by with or without each other. With Angus Deayton, Alone 1/6 47031 1830 Comedy Pearce Quigley, Bennett Arron, Kate Isitt and Abigail Cruttenden.