Glastonbury tribute to Malcolm Hardee

A Glastonbury Festival tribute to roguish comic Malcolm Hardee is to be broadcast on Radio 4 later this month.

The stand-up, who drowned in a Thames dock in January, performed at the festival’s cabaret tent every year since its inception.

Now some of his friends and admirers are to pay tribute to him in a show in the marquee on the Friday night of this year’s festival, June 24, hosted by Arthur Smith.

The show, With Comic In Tent, will go out at 11pm the following Tuesday (June 28).

A Radio 4 spokesman said: “This promises to be a moving, memorable and fitting tribute to one of the most original figures in comedy. “

The station has also announced the rest of its summer line-up, which includes an adaptation of Chris Addison’s hit Edinburgh show from 2002 The Ape That Got Lucky.

The four-week comic look at evolution starts at 11pm on Thursday August 4.

Addison also returns in The Department, a satire based around a fictional government think-tank, with Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver from July 12

Also returning are:

• Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker’s spoof channel, Radio 9, starting June 30
• David Baddiel’s debate show Heresy from June 22
• Boothby Graffoe In No Particular Order from June 28
• Bearded Ladies sketch show featuring Oriane Messina, Fay Rusling, Charlotte McDougall and Susie Donkin from August 9.
• The News Quiz from July 8
• Just A Minute from July 11

Published: 3 Jun 2005