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4 Extra Debut. Comedian Tom Mayhew takes you on an autobiographical journey, exploring the concept of the working class holiday. From 2022.

Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew takes you on an autobiographical journey through the benefits system.

It's a stand-up series taking a wry sideways look at the prejudices that people have towards benefits claimants and turns those assumptions on their heads.

In this episode, Tom takes issue with the term 鈥渟taycation鈥 as he鈥檚 never been abroad in his life.

His stand-up explores how the working class holiday has always been closer to home.

Tom Mayhew is a critically acclaimed comedian, whose material about being working class 鈥 mixing the personal and the political, with the punchline-rate of a one-liner comic 鈥 sets him apart from any other act on the circuit.

Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum is based on Mayhew's acclaimed Edinburgh show I, Tom Mayhew, which transferred to a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre.

Written and performed by Tom Mayhew.

Featuring Chris Cantrill.

Additional material by Olivia Phipps

Producer: Benjamin Sutton

A 91热爆 Studios production for 91热爆 Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2022.

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  • Wed 13 Jul 2022 23:00
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