Archive On 4: Rik Mayall, Panglobal Phenomenon
- Radio factual
- BBC Radio 4
- 2024
- 1 episode
Special celebrating comic Rik Mayall a decade since his death, through unheard audio recordings. Also features Max Kinnings, Trevor Dolby, Helen Lederer, Peter Richardson, Rosie Mayall and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Factual
- Broadcast
- 2024
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 1
- Features
- Max Kinnings, Trevor Dolby, Helen Lederer, Peter Richardson, Rosie Mayall, Sid Mayall, Bonnie Mayall, Ben Elton and more
- Writers
- Max Kinnings
- Producers
- Gareth Gwynn and Simon Nicholls
- Company
Archive On 4: Rik Mayall, Panglobal Phenomenon, is a 60-minute programme assembled from 114 hours of recordings that the late comic made between 2004 and his passing, in conversation and improvising with his collaborator Max Kinnings.
Most of the audio is taken from a two year period when the pair were writing Mayall's 2005 spoof autobiography, Bigger Than Hitler Better Than Christ. But the recordings continued up until a few weeks before Mayall died, aged 56 of a heart attack.
Catch-up
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Saturday 1st June 2024 at 8pm on BBC Radio 4
- Episode length
- 1 hour