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Chambers

2309832442?profile=originalChambers is a comedy series set in perhaps the country's least spectacular law chambers. Starting on Radio 4, it moved on to BBC television a year later using many of the same scripts although not in the same order as the radio series (to make up the

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The Government Inspector

2309832981?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Alistair Beaton

Gogol's landmark nineteenth century satire on corruption and sleaze. A penniless clerk is mistaken for a Government official by a corrupt town council. S

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Capital Gains - Series 01 & 02

2309830583?profile=originalCapital Gains - Series 01 & 02 - Audio Comedy

Comedy series about Julius Hutch, who spends his retirement as an amateur philosopher

Capital Gains  originally aired from 1994 to 1997. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and starred Peter Jones and Justin

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Meet The Huggetts

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A comedy series with Jack Warner as Joe and Kathleen Harrison as Ethel.

It ran from 1953-61 and was a spin-off from the cinema's popular comedy drama of 1947, Holiday Camp, which had introduced the salt-of-the-earth Huggett Family.

All at Sea

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The School for Scandal

2309830953?profile=originalBy Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The School for Scandal is one Sheridan’s most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama. It was produced at Drury Lane Theater, London, May 8, 1777. Sheridan’s phrase “school for scandal” is a grand metaphor

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In The Balance

2309830919?profile=originalSatirical political comedy series.

England is hosting the Football World Cup at the Wembley Stadium, a major summit of EU leaders and a general election is imminent. When a body is found in a ball bag it is the chance for disgraced old hack, George C

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In The Chair

2309830919?profile=originalIt's time for a brand new investigation for George Cragge, BBC correspondent extraordinaire.

A six-part comedy thriller by Mark Tavener, starring Michael Williams as George Cragge, Barry Foster as DCI Frank Jefferson, and Hugh Laurie as the prime min

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In the Red

2309831279?profile=originalComic thriller adapted from the book by Mark Tavener, BBC Radio Crime Correspondent George Cragge investigates a spree of bizarre murders involving bankers and pound coins.

Episode 1

1/7 Anarchic BBC reporter George Cragge hunts a murderer of bank ma

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Pick Ups

2309828863?profile=originalPick Ups - Series one

Six episodes. First broadcast from 20080110 to 20080214.

Sitcom set around a Manchester taxi company.

Pick Ups is a sharp series set in the run down taxi office of Irwell Cars on the outskirts of Manchester.
 
 
Unrequited love; lo

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It's A Fair Cop by Alfie Moore

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It's A Fair Cop
BBC Radio4
First broadcast 2014

Alfie Moore spent eighteen years on the Humberside police force before turning to stand up comedy. In this, his first series for Radio 4, he swears his audience in and takes them through a real life

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