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A Day In The Life Of Radio 4

  • Radio sketch show
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 1983
  • 1 episode

A fairly typical day for the BBC's national speech network - Ken Ford falls through the platform in Gardeners' Question Time; Samuel Beckett is the birthday guest on Midweek and the dodo makes a rare appearance in Wildlife. Stars Russell Davies, Chris Emmett, Sally Grace, Sheila Steafel and Eugene Fraser

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Press clippings

Devotees of Radio 4 have a treat tomorrow: one of the neatest and funniest spoofs I've ever heard on radio. The subject is Radio 4 itself, and A Day In The Life Of Radio 4 is just that - a typical day's schedule, compressed into 40 minutes with all our dear old friends and enemies, their funny little ways only a touch exaggerated. [...] It's not satire, which makes for hatred, but something more deprecatory and more devastating.

Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 2nd September 1983

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