Radio Roundup
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tealinHey what we all need right now is a lot of great radio. Right? Right.
The 99p Challenge - Sue Perkins, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Peter Baynham, Peter Serafinowicz, Richard Herring ... these people have now amassed Oscars, Emmys, and nominations thereto, international fame, and other successes, but I still think of them as the 99p crowd and feel oddly possessive of them, and so proud. This show is pure crack which is probably why I love it so, and this is one of my favourit episodes.
Dilemma - If you didn't get enough Sue Perkins in 99p (and who can get enough, really), here's another show she hosts, goading panellists in their hypothetical moral quandaries.
Last week's Dead Ringers and this week's- Listening to old episodes of this topical satirical impressions show was a crash course in British pop culture. They've brought the series back after seven years' dormancy, I suspect because old episodes have been ruined by Operation Yewtree.
Susan Calman is Convicted: the Death Penalty and Depression - She's brilliant and funny and smart as a whip, and here she talks about her [philosophical] convictions honestly, wittily, and articulately. The Depression episode is particularly excellent.
Just a Minute - The Radio 4 stalwart is back, good times for all. Sue Perkins again, this time on the panel, owning it as usual.
Radio 9 - It's a weird little show, but I'm glad it's getting reruns finally.
Chris Addison's Civilisation - 'The thinking idiot's anthropologist' presents a comic-factual look at human society. (airs in an hour, so listen to another one of these shows first if you catch this post early)
I Think I've Got a Problem - 'Average Joe somehow gets a small close-harmony group in his head, which makes life difficult' is not the sort of program blurb you commonly see. (Airs tomorrow.)
Old Harry's Game - Always worth a listen, even if the Edith series aren't as good as the Professor ones. Sitcom set in Hell, starring Satan. It's good.
The Consultants - Nice gentle sketch comedy, often with songs, lightly surreal.
The 99p Challenge - Sue Perkins, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Peter Baynham, Peter Serafinowicz, Richard Herring ... these people have now amassed Oscars, Emmys, and nominations thereto, international fame, and other successes, but I still think of them as the 99p crowd and feel oddly possessive of them, and so proud. This show is pure crack which is probably why I love it so, and this is one of my favourit episodes.
Dilemma - If you didn't get enough Sue Perkins in 99p (and who can get enough, really), here's another show she hosts, goading panellists in their hypothetical moral quandaries.
Last week's Dead Ringers and this week's- Listening to old episodes of this topical satirical impressions show was a crash course in British pop culture. They've brought the series back after seven years' dormancy, I suspect because old episodes have been ruined by Operation Yewtree.
Susan Calman is Convicted: the Death Penalty and Depression - She's brilliant and funny and smart as a whip, and here she talks about her [philosophical] convictions honestly, wittily, and articulately. The Depression episode is particularly excellent.
Just a Minute - The Radio 4 stalwart is back, good times for all. Sue Perkins again, this time on the panel, owning it as usual.
Radio 9 - It's a weird little show, but I'm glad it's getting reruns finally.
Chris Addison's Civilisation - 'The thinking idiot's anthropologist' presents a comic-factual look at human society. (airs in an hour, so listen to another one of these shows first if you catch this post early)
I Think I've Got a Problem - 'Average Joe somehow gets a small close-harmony group in his head, which makes life difficult' is not the sort of program blurb you commonly see. (Airs tomorrow.)
Old Harry's Game - Always worth a listen, even if the Edith series aren't as good as the Professor ones. Sitcom set in Hell, starring Satan. It's good.
The Consultants - Nice gentle sketch comedy, often with songs, lightly surreal.
