Elisabeth Mahoney
- Reviewer
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Radio head: Going Out with Alan Carr
The banter between Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes makes for genuinely funny listening.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 23rd June 2010Radio Review: Micky Flanagan - What Chance Change?
A look back at his schooldays was homely and likeable, writes Elisabeth Mahoney.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 26th May 2010Radio Review: So Wrong It's Right
Charlie Brooker's show has been put in Radio 4's edgiest (11pm) slot, but it's savage misanthropy makes you do a double-take at the radio.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 12th May 2010Radio Review: When The Dog Dies
Ronnie Corbett plays Sandy, who thwarts his children by refusing to sell the family home until his dog dies.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 3rd May 2010Radio Review: Mark Steel's in Town
A little local knowledge helps Mark Steel dish the dirt on Dartford, writes Elisabeth Mahoney.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 8th April 2010Radio Review: Adam Buxton's Big Mix Tape
It's not quite the return of Adam and Joe, but Adam Buxton's new mix-tape themed show is a winner.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 5th April 2010Radio Review: The Unbelievable Truth
Everything about this Radio 4 panel show, hosted by David Mitchell, is a delight, says Elisabeth Mahoney.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 30th March 2010Radio Review: Sarah Millican's Support Group
This sparky life-counsellor comedy's blend of fiction and live audience interaction is an odd one, at its best when it freewheels into charmingly silly little asides.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 19th February 2010The Christian O'Connell Solution - a show so forced and unfunny I used to stare, disbelieving, at the radio - has departed, replaced by Chris Addison's 7 Day Sunday. It's an hour of quips about the headlines or, as Addison put it: "God said, let there be a radio programme in which four idiots are facetious about the week's news."
It's really quite funny, and comprehensive in its sweep of topics. Venezuela's President Chavez was deemed "fantastically leftfield"; Italian television was described as being mostly "prank-based"; and postmen and women, we were informed, "excrete red rubber bands" when nervous. You sort of have to be there, listening intently, to get the four-way chat (with regulars Andy Zaltzman and Sarah Millican plus a weekly guest). It's quite involved: if you lose yourself in the papers for a minute, you will miss hefty chunks.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 27th January 2010Radio review: Dick Emery: The Comedy of Errors
A troubled childhood revealed a lot about the comedian Dick Emery.
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 30th September 2009