Tickets are now available for the following shows. When booking by e-mail, please state which show you wish to attend, the date and the number of tickets you require (four is usually the maximum) as well as your full name, address and daytime telephone number. Sometimes shows have minimum age limits, so check if in doubt.
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Footlights: The All-Star Retrospective
Celebrating the 125th anniversary of the legendary Cambridge Footlights, BBC Radio 4 is recording three special shows featuring a roll-call of stars whose careers were launched by the club.Almost certainly the most influential group in the history of British comedy: the Cambridge Footlights has helped launch the careers of stars and shows including; Peter Cook, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, half of Monty Python, Emma Thompson, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Fry and Laurie, That Mitchell and Webb Sound, and Mark Watson.
With a cast of household names and comedy luminaries these recordings will recreate sketches, monologues and songs originally performed by Footlights members.
Recording at the Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX on June 2 at 6.30pm.
For free tickets, visit tvrecordings.com.
Talking And Not Talking
Laura Solon and friends return to Radio 4 with a new series of Talking and Not Talking, the comedy series packed with character monologues and sketches.Recording onSunday 6 April, Monday 12, Wednesday 14 and Tuesday 20 May at the BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House, Central London. Doors at 7pm.
For free tickets, visit the BBC ticket unit website.
Out To Lunch
Russell Kane introduces some of the finest comic talents in the UK for Radio 2. Recording at Soho Theatre at 7pm on Sundays April 27 to June 1. For free tickets, visit tvrecordings.comPolitical Animal
Tickets are now available for the second series of BBC Radio 4’s Political Animal, hosted by Andy Zaltzman and featuring up to five guest comedians per show.Recording at The Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX on May 27, June 3 and June 24.
For free tickets, visit tvrecordings.com
4uarters
Nick Mohammed and friends bring characterful sketches and monologues to life in 4uarters, a late night audience comedy for Radio 4 based on his 2007 Edinburgh show.Recording at the Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX on Friday 30 May and Friday 6 June at 7.30pm.
For free tickets, visit the BBC ticket unit
Spike's Lookalikes
After his Radio 4 series, Mark Watson writes his first sitcom for Radio 4. Spike's Lookalikes centres around a loveable buy useless showbiz agent with clients including a lookalike Del Boy, Posh Spice, and a Pope John Paul II.Recording at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Central London on the nights of May 24 and June 15
For free tickets, visit the BBC ticket unit
It's Later Than You Think
Marcus Brigstocke forces a volunteer from the world of entertainment to try stuff they've never tried before. In the pilot, Phill Jupitus ended up having colonic irrigation, reading a Jane Austen novel and eating a Findus Crispy Pancake.Recording at the Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX on Sunday 1, Saturday 7, Monday 23 and Thursday 26 June and at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Central London on July 6 at 7pm
For free tickets, visit the BBC ticket unit
Cabin Pressure
John Finnemore has written this t new sitcom starring Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam and Benedict Cumberbatch, and set in a small airline business revolving around mundane jobs such as small cargo runs, stag nights and trying to avoid getting diverted to Birmingham.Recording at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London on Sunday 1 June and at the Pleasance Theatre, Carpenters Mews, North Road, North London on Thursday 12 and Sunday 15 June at 7.15pm.
Recording onn Sunday 18 May, Wednesday 21 May and Friday 23 May at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Central London, at 7:15pm
For free tickets, visit the BBC tickets website
Hot Gossip
Three professionally catty gossipmongers compete as they pull apart the week's showbiz news. There are no teams, it's everyone for themselves. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman. Recording at the Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX on Thursdays 24 April and 1, 8, 15 and 22 May. Studio doors open at 7.45pm.For free tickets, visit the BBC ticket unit website.
Heresy
Victoria Coren hosts the Radio 4 panel game in which teams of comedians challenge received wisdom. Subjects covered in last series included ‘It’s what’s on the inside that counts’; ‘Prog rock is overblown pretentious nonsense’ and ‘Men who go off with young girls and buy Porsches in mid-life crises are pathetic’.Recording at the Drill Hall in Central London on April 28, May 12, 16 and 29. For free tickets, visit tvrecordings.com
Bleak Expectations
Volume 2 of Radio 4's comic Victorian epic tells of the further extraordinary adventures of Pip Bin and his trusty friend Harry Biscuit as they battle against the evil Mr Gently Benevolent, returned from the dead specifically to destroy all that is good and pure and true.Recording on May 18, 21, 23 26at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, Central London, at 7:15pm
For free tickets, visit the BBC ticket unit website.
