Category: Radio 4
Date: 17.02.2005
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Tune into 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4 in Spring 2005 for new comedy and old favourites - from The Now Show and The Museum of Everything to Mitch Benn's musical parodies and the talented Laurence and Gus with their brand new series Untold Stories.
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Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return at the helm for a new run of the award winning series The Now Show on Friday 18 March at 6.30pm.
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Treating the week's news stories with sharp-witted irreverence, The Now Show sets out to challenge perceived wisdom and provide a half hour of topical laughs.
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"Welcome to the Museum of Everything; feel free to wander round our many galleries and experience the history of everything. The Museum Café is now closed for lunch."
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A sketch show in disguise, The Museum of Everything is themed around the world of museums, galleries, guided tours, stately homes, historical re-enactors and obsessive collectors.
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Featuring Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, The Museum of Everything returns for its second series on Thursday 24 March at 11.00pm.
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Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music returns for a new series of anarchic musical comedy on Tuesday 22 March at 6.30pm.
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From 4,000 year old Sumerian songs reworked as Beatles tracks to Duran Duran trying to win Duran Duran look alike competitions, Mitch mixes musical parody and comedy banter for the new series.
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Edinburgh Fringe stars Laurence and Gus unearth the untold stories of some of life's bit-part players in a new comedy series for Radio 4 - Laurence and Gus: Untold Stories starts on Wednesday 13 April at 11.00pm..
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Sketches include a father and son who can't discuss the embarrassing subject of football; and the Belgian astronomer who discovers the earth is slightly squidgy.
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Laurence Howarth is one of the co-writers of Dead Ringers and The Sunday Format and is the creator of the critically acclaimed Radio 4 sitcom Rigor Mortis.
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Gus Brown has appeared in Rigor Mortis on Radio 4 and in My Hero and Happiness on 91Èȱ¬ Television.
