Sindhustan
Stand up comedian Sindhu Vee’s first solo show for Radio 4.
Born in India, educated in Delhi, Toronto, Chicago and Oxford, married to a Dane, and with three London born kids still living at home (and calling her mate) former investment banker Sindhu Vee has a unique perspective on parenting. At least the dog - a giant Labrador from Wales - understands her.
Written and performed by Sindhu Vee
4 x 15’, BBC Radio 4, September 2018
4 x 30’, BBC Radio 4, January 2020
Ankle Tag
Three series for Radio 4, with co-funding from BBC Radio Wales. When Gruff's dad is released from prison, he wants to move in with Gruff and his wife. What he doesn't tell them is that he's on release from prison where he has been serving time for fraud, and his ankle tag means he can't leave the house after 7pm.
With Elis James as Gruff, Steve Speirs as Big Bob and Katy Wix as Alice.
Written by Gareth Gwynn and Benjamin Partridge.
Pilot - 1 x 28', BBC Radio 2, August 2016
Series 1 - 4 x 28', BBC Radio 4, August 2017
Series 2 - 4 x 28’, BBC Radio 4, October 2018
Series 3 - 6 x 28’, BBC Radio 4/ Radio Wales, TX 2020
The News Quiz
Miles Jupp presents the iconic Radio 4 panel show, with guests including Frankie Boyle, Susan Calman, Mark Steel, Jo Brand, Lucy Porter, Andy Hamilton, Desiree Burch, Kerry Godliman, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jayde Adams & Nish Kumar.
Series 98, 6 x 28’, BBC Radio 4, January 2019
Series 99, 8 x 28’, BBC Radio 4, April 2019
Won the Chortle Award for Best Radio Comedy programme in 2019
50 Years in 50 Minutes
A special edition of Just a Minute to celebrate the 50th anniversary, featuring some of your favourite panellists from across the years, with regular voices and a few surprises.
Nicholas Parsons presents a one-off programme in which guests from across the programme's history are brought together for one night only. Listeners of a sensitive nature should be warned that wanton hesitation, repetition and deviation will feature from the start.
Produced by Gareth Gwynn
Executive Produced by Victoria Lloyd
1 x 28’, BBC Radio 4, 2018
Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed
Sitcom vehicle for character comedian Nick Mohammed in which he plays a hapless Detective Sergeant investigating crimes with his uniformed team played by Anna Crilly and Colin Hoult.
1 series, 4 x 29', BBC Radio 4, 2013
The Bedsitting Room
Three years since the nuclear misunderstanding which led to the third world war survivors gather together on the former-streets of London. In amongst the rubble, Captain Kak and his fiancee Penelope find Lord Fortnum, who is convinced he's turning into a Bed-sitting room. With property prices what they are, Kak should be on to a good thing.
This atmospheric, surrealist play was originally written by John Antrobus & Spike Milligan, and has been adapted for radio by John Antrobus & Paul Merton.
Starring Derek Jacobi, Bernard Cribbins, Catherine Tate and Paul Merton.
Music & FX by Jerry Peal.
Directed by Sam Michell.
1 x 59', BBC Radio 4, December 2015
Gareth Gwynn’s Alternative Archive
Remember when Russia landed the first man on the moon? How Tony Blair became European President, and Delia Smith became Pope? Or how the American Writers Guild Strike indirectly led to the election of President Donald J Trump?
Satirist Gareth Gwynn does. Blurring fact and fiction, using genuine archive from the last 50 years, he tells the story of world-changing events that could have happened.
Written and presented by Gareth Gwynn
1 x 59’ Archive Hour, BBC Radio 4, January 2019
North By Northamptonshire
"Cleverly written, understated comedy" - Daily Mail
Beautifully observed sitcom about the residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. Starring Penelope Wilton, Geoffrey Palmer, Mackenzie Crook, Felicity Montagu, Kevin Eldon, and Rufus Wright.
Written by Katherine Jakeways.
The series was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award in 2013.
Series 2, BBC Radio 4, 2012
The News Quiz
Radio 4's long running topical quiz. I produced 5 series, 2007-2010.
Sandi Toksvig was the host, and regular panellists included Fred Macaulay, Sue Perkins, Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Francis Wheen and Hugo Rifkind.
Nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award in 2008.
Series xx-yy, BBC Radio 4, 2007-2010
Just a Minute
"A deceptively simple concept that requires razor-sharp skill to execute" - Radio Times
Just a Minute is Radio 4's longest running panel show - first broadcast in 1976, and presented in all that time by the inimitable Nicholas Parsons. I first produced Just a Minute in 2014, producing 3 series a year for Radio 4. Regular panellists include Stephen Fry, Sue Perkins, Sheila Hancock, Tony Hawks, Ross Noble and Jenni Eclair.
The series won a Chortle Award for Best Radio Comedy in 2016.
Series 72-75 & 78-..., BBC Radio 4, 2014-2017
Nick Mohammed in.... (4uarters, Halves)
"Hysterically funny and relentlessly silly" - The List
3 series for Radio 4 from character comedian Nick Mohammed. In each episode Nick inhabits a different character from hypermanic teacher Mr Swallow, to a teen party girl enjoying her first term at university.
With Anna Crilly and Colin Hoult.
3 series, BBC Radio 4, 2008-2011
Cowards
"The funniest sketches since the Fast Show" - The Guardian
Sketch comedy exploring male friendships, with a distinctive voice and rich soundscape. Cowards brought together the talents of Tim Key, Lloyd Woolf, Tom Basden and Stefan Golaszewski who wrote and performed.
Series 1 - 6 x 28', BBC Radio 4, 2007
Series 2 - 4 x 28', BBC Radio 4, 2008
The Correspondent
Series of bitter-sweet comic monologues, starring Tom Allen.
Tom works in the complaints department of a large furniture retailer, spending his days in a gloomy underground office cut off from the world. Adrift in a sea of correspondence, we hear his mundane days unfold via the posters, signs, letters, faxes, emails, text messages, and PostIt notes that he reads out loud for us to hear.
Series 1 - 4 x 15', BBC7, 2007
Series 2 - 4 x 15', BBC Radio 4, 2009
Space Hacks
A quirky sitcom starring Dan Mersh and Tim Key as hapless space journalists, and Prunella Scales as their onboard computer Mother.
This was BBC7's first original sitcom commission.
Written by Stuart Sumner and Ian Simons
Series 1 - 4 x 30', BBC7, 2007
Series 2 - 4 x 30', BBC7, 2008
Seekers
"this has the makings of a sure-fire cult hit" - Radio Times
Matthew Horne plays Stuart - formerly employed at Raleigh job centre, now sitting on the other side of the desk with the other job seekers. He's supervised by his former flame (Zara Ahmadi), and drawn into the surreal lunacy of former school mates Joe (Daniel Mays) and Terry (Tony Way).
Written by Steve Burge.
Series 2 - 6 x 28', BBC Radio 4, 2015
We Are Klang
Anarchic, semi-improvised shaggy dog stories written and performed by Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood.
Music and editing by Rex Brough.
1 series - 4 x 30, BBC Radio 2, 2007
A Series of Psychotic Episodes
Two series of this surreal sketch show from artist and writer Miriam Elia. The show was developed through the Witty and Twisted new talent initiative, and ran for one series on BBC7 before transferring to BBC Radio 4.
Edward the Hamster went on to have a solo career in book form.
Illustration copyright - Miriam Elia.
The pilot was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award in 2008.
Series 1 - 4 x 15', BBC7, 2009
Series 2 - 4 x 30', BBC Radio 4, 2010
What The Future
Futuristic sketch show exploring alternative apocalyptic scenarios, with voiceover from Kirsty Wark.
Starring Kieron Hodgson, Geoffrey McGivern, Nadia Kamil, Jane Slavin, Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez.
Written by Madeleine Brettingham, Steve Burge and Dale Shaw.
1 series - 4 x 28', BBC Radio 4, 2015
Tilt
Developed and produced the first topical comedy for BBC7, with an open door policy that attempted to emulate the training ground for new writers that had been lost when Weekending ended.
The cast included Simon Brodkin, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Olly Maltman, Nick Mohammed, Isy Suttie and Katy Wix. Writers included Julie Bower (now writing So Awkward for CBBC), and Gareth Gwynn (who wrote Bull for UK Gold).
1 series - 6 x 28', BBC7, 2008
Craig Brown's Lost Diaries
"The cast is superb, the scripts are diamond bright" The Telegraph
Impressions show which goes behind the public face of public figures like Barack Obama, John Prescott and Barbara Cartland and shares their innermost thoughts.
Voices provided by Jan Ravens, Alistair MacGowan, Rory Bremner and Lewis McLeod.
1 series - 6 x 28', BBC Radio 4, 2010
Four Sad Faces
Tobi Wilson, Jack Bernhardt, Rachel Lerman and Tom Crowley had their first radio credit courtesy of the Witty & Twisted scheme while they were still at school. Four Sad Faces was a series of 4 x 30 minute episodes for 4extra, recorded the following year.
Tobi now writes for The Amazing World of Gumball, Jack is a former Radio Comedy bursary recipient and has had his own sitcom on Radio 4, Rachel now directs, and Tom is a writer, director, and producer.
1 series - 4 x 30 minutes, BBC7, 2008
The Milk Run
A mix of comedy and music blended by Osymyso, which acted as a first step into radio for a diverse range of writing and performing talent including Frankie Boyle, Mark Watson, Russell Howard, Roisin Conaty, Tim Key, Greg Davies, Josie Long, Jim Field-Smith, Dan Skinner and Katy Brand.
Co-produced week on week off with Colin Anderson.
The series was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award in 2006.
55 x 60 minute episodes, BBC Radio 1, 2004-2005
The Now Show
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a topical mix of stand up, music and sketches, with a bit of help from regulars Mitch Benn, John Holmes and Laura Shavin.
3 series, 6 x 28', BBC Radio 4, 2010-2013
1966 & All That
A dense soundscape and the solemn narration of Joss Ackland and Eleanor Bron lent gravitas to this blink and you'll miss it adaptation of satirist Craig Brown's best selling book.
The series won a Sony Gold Award in 2007.
1 series, 6 x 28', BBC Radio 4, 2006
Tina C: Herstory
"clever, witty and smart and performed with utter wide-eyed sincerity", Wow247
Country Music star Tina C - the alter ego of character comedian and artist Christopher Green - brings her life story to Radio 4, with a red hot live band.
1 series, 4 x 28', BBC Radio 4, 2015
Dennis Dies in The Jungle
Quirky narrative comedy written by Stefan Golaszewski, and recorded as part of a BBC director training course.
With Jot Davies, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Neil Edmond and Stefan Golaszewski.
Pilot Episode, 1 x 14', non-broadcast
Antiquity
Tim McInnerny stars as an irascible antique shop owner who has accidentally destroyed a priceless artefact.
With Andrew Sachs, Will Andrews, Nadia Kamil, David Reed and Christine Kavanagh.
Written by Gareth Gwynn & John-Luke Roberts.
Pilot episode, BBC Radio 4, 2010
A tv series was subsequently made for UK Gold