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Beautiful Dreamers
Beautiful Dreamers

Beautiful Dreamers

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2010
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Beautiful Dreamers recounts six gloriously improbable events that never actually happened. Stars Nat Segnit, Toby Jones, Charlie Higson, Eleanor Bron, Simon McBurney and Kevin Eldon

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Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2010
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
6 (1 series)
Stars
Nat Segnit, Toby Jones, Charlie Higson, Eleanor Bron, Simon McBurney and Kevin Eldon
Writers
Nat Segnit and James Lever
Producers
Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko

Beautiful Dreamers looks at improbable events that never actually happened. The episodes feature interviews with the protagonists, their colleagues and their critics, as well as "documentary" clips sounding like footage captured at the time.

Within the series, the stories include the creator of the first animal orchestra; a billionaire who will free-fall from space; an ex-con and New York junkie who has become famous for a death-defying bridge jump; the first swimmer of the River Europe; the modern Jonahs who are regularly swallowed by whales; and a Uruguayan footballer who has made an emphatic attempt to stamp out corruption in the game.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 26th October 2010 at 11pm on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats
  • Tuesday 8th January 2019 at 11:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 6
  • Tuesday 1st January 2019 at 11:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 5
  • Tuesday 25th December 2018 at 11:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4

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