15 Minute Musical
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2004 - 2019
- 57 episodes (8 series)
A Radio 4 show in which current affairs and celebrity stories told in musical form. Stars Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Melanie Hudson, Vicki Pepperdine, Jess Robinson and Pippa Evans
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Series 4, Episode 1 - Westminster Side Story
The Gordies take on the Hug-A-Hoodies to see who can be most alike. Gordon Brown and David Cameron are the two gang leaders with nothing to fight about.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 19th September 2007
- Time
- 11pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 15 minutes
Cast & crew
| Richie Webb | Various |
| Dave Lamb | Various |
| Melanie Hudson (as Mel Hudson) | Various |
| Dave Cohen | Various |
| Dave Cohen | Writer |
| David Quantick | Writer |
| Richie Webb | Writer |
| Katie Tyrrell | Producer |
| Richie Webb | Composer |
| Matt Katz | Music Production |
Press
Tonic of the week was Westminster Side Story, the first in a new run of 15-Minute Musicals. The pastiche of West Side Story was inspired, and the political jokes were convincing as two gangs, Gordon's Goodies and the Hugger Hoodies, battled to dominate the centre ground.
Written by Dave Cohen, David Quantick and Richie Webb, performed by Webb, David Lamb and Mel Hudson, it was just the thing to blow away gathering clouds of conference-season cant.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 25th September 2007