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Comic Fringes

Comic Fringes

  • Radio stand-up
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2000 - 2015
  • 41 episodes (11 series)

Comedians read their own short stories in front of audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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Comic Fringes - The Complete Series 1

Comic Fringes - The Complete Series 1

Note: these episodes correspond to Series 5 of the radio show.

Three short stories written and performed by leading new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as part of the Festival Fringe.

In May Contain Nuts, by Janey Godley, a woman glimpses her own mortality when she calculates that only twenty-seven years separate her from her cantankerous father.

The Hair Of The Dead, by Sarah Millican, is a moving (and very funny) short story about a compassionate undertaker's assistant.

Finally, Gone Fishing is a tale of love and betrayal set in a remote village in the Yorkshire Dales, written and read by Jon Richardson.

First released: Thursday 1st March 2012

  • Distributor: AudioGo
  • Catalogue: 9781445892450

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