The provocative satirical information reporter Jonathan Pie is bringing his offended political rants to the BBC. 

Since 2016, Jonathan Pie has been gloriously telling it like it’s on-line. together with his splenetic doses of truth-telling. The offended UK “journalist” lays naked the hypocrisy of politics and the frustrations of those that report on it.

Now, Tom Walker, who writes and performs the character, is bringing Jonathan Pie to BBC Radio 4. In a brand new sitcom, he’ll discover himself confronted with the views of the good unwashed as he takes to the airwaves for a brand-new late-night phone-in present, with sudden outcomes…

The present will expose the broader listening public to Pie. He’ll direct his ire in direction of all the pieces from ‘ladies’s points’ to cancel tradition, the NHS, id politics and the BBC itself.

Behind the scenes, we’re promised an perception into Pie’s clashes together with his manufacturing crew and the BBC senior administration. The present lifts the lid on his private life too, as he battles together with his ex-wife and his agent, and struggles to maintain management amid the challenges of a quickly altering world.

Extra used to interviewing vapid politicians with their ready traces, Pie will discover he’s a fish out of water in his makes an attempt to cope with most people and their “barely sentient” opinions — which they’re all too keen to share with him. Pie takes no prisoners, skewering callers from all sides of the political spectrum.

Tom Walker says:

“It’s actually thrilling to see Pie work together with such an array of different characters for the primary time, in his new podcast for the BBC. It brings him to life in a method that followers is not going to have seen earlier than. For others, this half sitcom, half spoof phone-in present, will probably be an ideal introduction into Pie’s world.”

Jonathan Pie is produced by Alison Vernon-Smith of Yada Yada Productions for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. For extra particulars, together with the broader solid, take a look at the BBC press launch.

The sequence lands as a 10-part boxset on Friday ninth June on BBC Sounds. A BBC Radio 4 broadcast will observe in the summertime.