On the Hour & Knowing Me, Knowing You - BBC Radio Comedy torrent

Category: Full Cast, Humor, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: Alan Partridge Brass Eye Chat Show News Spoof The Day Today

Written by Chris Morris, Richard Herring, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, David Quantick, Stewart Lee
Read by Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber, Doon Mackichan
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

On the Hour - Complete Series 1 & 2 with the Christmas special.

Knowing Me, Knowing You - Complete Series & spoof behind the scenes special.

On the Hour is a legendary radio comedy renowned for its savage dissection of news and current affairs programming.

It boasts a stellar cast of writers and performers who have gone on to feature in some of the best UK comedy of the last 15 years:-

Chris Morris (The Day Today, The IT Crowd)

Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Saturday Night Armistice)

Steve Coogan (I’m Alan Partridge, Saxondale)

Stewart Lee (Jerry Springer The Opera, Fist of Fun, This Morning With Richard Not Judy)

Richard Herring (Fist of Fun, This Morning With Richard Not Judy)

David Schneider (I’m Alan Partridge, The Saturday Night Armistice)

Doon Mackichan (Smack The Pony, A Very Social Secretary, Brass Eye)

Rebecca Front (The Thick of It, Nighty Night).

It also featured the first appearance of Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge. This hilarious satirical comedy (originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4) formed the basis for TV show ‘The Day Today’ and its sequel ‘Brass Eye’.

First Broadcast in 1991 & 1992

Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge - Spoof chat show from On the Hour’s supreme sports reporter and his guests from the world of theatre, politics and emotional tragedy.

Steve Coogan plays the incompetent but self-satisfied Norwich-based host, who blunders his way though a series of toe-curling interviews. Cringe comedy classic.

First Broadcast in 1992

Knowing Knowing Me, Knowing You: An Alan Partridge Documentary

Multiple award-winning chat show host Alan Partridge opens his private keyhole and allows you to kneel at it.

This behind-the-scenes documentary charts one hectic week in the life of Alan Partridge and his production team as they make an edition of his hit chat show ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’.

First broadcast in 1993

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