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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 his grandpa to the match.

It is all about the beautiful game and its unattractive obsession with money.

Tom Mayhew is a critically acclaimed comedian, whose material about being working class – mixing the personal and the political, with the punchline-rate of a one-liner comic – 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

Produced by Benjamin Sutton

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

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