Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!

Little by little, Steve Delaney's creation of a superannuated thesp apparently suffering from the onset of senile dementia is becoming not only acceptable to laugh at, in these rigidly PC days, but something of a comic gem. At any rate the presumably live studio audience in these six new episodes hewn from the living jelly of the Count's haphazard life seem to think so. Mangling the language with abandon all ships (that's the sort of thing he says), confusing Gordon Ramsay with Alf Ramsay, he tackles a series of challenges with the confidence of the severely deluded. In today's opener, for example, he takes charge of the local greasy spoon and tries to turn it into the sort of place where bookings are required for luncheon.