Episodios

  • 30 Rock - with Sara Barron

    30 Rock - with Sara Barron
    May 15 2024
    Comedian and writer Sara Barron (Firecrotch & Normcore, They Like To Watch) celebrates the comforts of 30 Rock, Tina Fey's sitcom skewering of network TV, and the joy of seeing relatable character Liz Lemon surviving and thriving (even if she has lettuce in her hair).

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    1 h y 3 m
  • Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes Innings - with Ed Morrish

    Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes Innings - with Ed Morrish
    Mar 7 2024
    Comedy producer Ed Morrish (Non-Censored, Soundheap, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme) brings his personal comfort blanket, Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes innings at Headingley against Australia (and more broadly "all sport") to try and persuade Comfort Blanket umpire Joel that it's allowed - and makes a case for sport as the perfect improvised long-form narrative. It's all about the story...

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    1 h y 6 m
  • Allo Allo - with Tom Price

    Allo Allo - with Tom Price
    Feb 22 2024
    Actor, comedian and broadcaster Tom Price (Torchwood, Magic FM, My Mate Brought A Toaster) talks about the lifelong comfort he draws from Allo Allo, Perry & Lloyd's broad and shameless French resistance farce. Listen very carefully, we will say this only once: it's actually brilliant.

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    1 h y 10 m
  • Kind Hearts And Coronets - with Naomi Alderman

    Kind Hearts And Coronets - with Naomi Alderman
    Feb 8 2024
    Writer Naomi Alderman (The Power, The Future) chooses as her comfort blanket, the 1949 Ealing black comedy 'Kind Hearts And Coronets', with its mixture of revenge (served cold, of course), and vicious social satire, managing to possess, one might say, "all the exuberance of Chaucer, without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period..."

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    1 h y 11 m
  • Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART TWO)

    Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART TWO)
    Oct 12 2023

    In the second part of our two part look at definitive 1990s sitcom Friends, Larry Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about how comedy reflects its times, how audiences want (and don't want) things to change for their favourite comedy characters, and when it's time to say goodbye.


    This is PART TWO of a two part episode. If you haven't heard PART ONE, please go back and start there...


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    49 m
  • Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART ONE)

    Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART ONE)
    Oct 11 2023

    Writer and actor Larry Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about his love for the smash hit 1990s sitcom Friends, and the craft of making warm, gag-filled, ensemble television comedy with your... er... friends.


    This is Part ONE of a two part episode.


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    45 m
  • Don't Look Now - with Danny Robins

    Don't Look Now - with Danny Robins
    Sep 20 2023
    Writer and broadcaster Danny Robins (Uncanny, 2:22 A Ghost Story) talks about the unexpected comforts of Nic Roeg's classic 1973 supernatural thriller Don't Look Now, a masterful study of how humans try and make sense of life, death and the unexplained.

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    1 h y 12 m
  • Withnail & I - with Jim Howick

    Withnail & I - with Jim Howick
    Sep 10 2023
    Actor and writer Jim Howick (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about his love for Bruce Robinson's 1987 film 'Withnail & I', the studied debauchery of the striving, starving artist, its ache of regret for the 60s, and the strange, romantic comforts of desperation, booze and enormous herb-laced joints (lamb and otherwise).

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    1 h y 8 m