Summary
On paper, in black and white, it's going to sound really silly, but at the end of a long day, when you're too tired to read but you just need something to take your mind off all the things, major and minor, that have gone wrong, it's a sharp, slick halfhour of pure radio, leading the imagination by the ear. An announcer tells us what time it is and where we are, which could be anywhere from the bowels of Broadcasting House overhearing a Today programme production meeting (Humphrys still going on about bananas) to a beach in Barbados, from where the film director Mike Leigh is phoning the Hollywood actors he has fixed up with real awful jobs to provide them with improvising 'experience' (Keira Knightley has been on the deli counter of a WalMart for months while Robert De Niro has spent two years waffle-packing).
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Daring to Be Different
At last a late-night 'comedy' show on Radio Four that sounds a bit different. Bill Dare and his team of writers have been taking us on Tuesdays at 11 into their Secret World (Radio Four).
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