Six new topical specials are lined up for the Radio 4 Friday Evening Comedy slot.
BBC Radio 4 have introduced six new comedy specials for the summer time.
The exhibits are occupying the half-hour slot between collection Lifeless Ringers and The Information Quiz. Their presenters are a mixture of established names and rising stars.
Right here’s what’s arising:
The Newsmakers (twenty eighth July)
Rachel Parris (Late Evening Mash) hosts this spoof interview present, talking with the individuals on the centre of the week’s tales. This one-off will characteristic Bilal Zafar, Emily Lloyd-Saini, Sam Pamphilon and social media stars Rosie Holt MP and Michael Spicer.
The Newsmakers is a Lead Mojo manufacturing for BBC Radio 4.
What Are You Speaking About? (4th August)
Hosted by Rhys James (The Now Present), What Are You Speaking About? investigates the main problems with the week earlier than fixing them completely endlessly. Rhys will probably be joined by a gaggle of comedy’s quickest rising stars, together with Alasdair Beckett-King and Celya AB, to have a look at the information and ask ‘Why?’, ‘How come?’ And ‘Why although?’
What Are You Speaking About? is a BBC Studios manufacturing for Radio 4.
Dom Joly Breaks the Information (eleventh August)
A surreally mischievous tackle the week’s information tales by the inimitable Dom Joly (Set off Completely satisfied TV). In a mash-up of prank calls, interviews and options, Dom Joly Breaks the Information makes an attempt to unravel the largest tales of the week. Dom’s critical about tackling the precise information of the week. He simply wonders whether or not approaching it from a barely totally different angle may give us a extra attention-grabbing reply.
Dom Joly Breaks the Information is a Yada Yada manufacturing for BBC Radio 4.
The United Nations of Information (18th August)
Ria Lina heads up a crack crew of comics from across the globe together with Daliso Chaponda (Malawi), Ignacio Lopez (Spain) and Heidi Regan (Australia) to debate the UK’s largest tales earlier than what’s hitting the headlines of their homelands. We present them ours, in order that they present us theirs. That is The United Nations of Information: proof that comedy actually is common.
Catherine Bohart – TL;DR (twenty fifth August)
Columns. Evaluation. The Guardian’s Lengthy Learn. Who has time? Catherine Bohart (8 Out of 10 Cats), that’s who, and he or she and the TL;DR crew will probably be digging deep into one huge story that’s making the information this week to fill you in on how we received right here.
Catherine Bohart – TL;DR is a Mighty Bunny manufacturing for BBC Radio 4.
The Bare Week (1st September)
From The Skewer’s Jon Holmes comes The Bare Week, a contemporary means of dressing the week’s information parading it round for everybody to level and giggle at. Host Andrew Hunter Murray (No Such Factor As a Fish) will strip away the flimsy overlaying and jeer at not solely the massive tales, but in addition on the means through which the information itself is packaged and introduced. From award-winning writers and a crack crew of latest satirists – and recorded in entrance of a dwell viewers – The Bare Week delivers a (consensual) topical news-nude straight to your ears.
The Bare Week is an Uncommon manufacturing for BBC Radio 4.
Every of the six Radio 4 comedy specials airs at 6.30pm on Friday, with a Saturday repeat at 12.30pm. They can even be obtainable after broadcast, first on BBC Sounds and on RSS quickly after.