John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2011 - 2024
- 55 episodes (9 series)
Radio 4 sketch show written by and starring John Finnemore. Also features Simon Kane, Carrie Quinlan, Lawry Lewin and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
- 2023 Special repeated Thursday at 2:15pm on Radio 4
Episode menu
Series 9, Episode 6
Those following the series will know that the lives of each of the people focused upon in each episode are intertwined. For the final episode of the series, the lives of Newt, Russ, Deborah, Jerry and Vanessa are all in the spotlight.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 10th June 2021
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Lawry Lewin | Russ |
| Margaret Cabourn-Smith | Deborah |
| Simon Kane | Jerry |
| Carrie Quinlan | Vanessa |
| John Finnemore | Newt |
| John Finnemore | Writer |
| Ed Morrish | Producer |
| Rich Evans | Editor |
| Susannah Pearse | Composer |
Press
The complete timeline of Souvenir Programme series nine
Well, since you ask me for a final timeline for the events of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 9, we now have had a hundred and twenty-two years of family history of the Noones, the Nightingales, the Wilkinsons, the Goldings and the Goldfarbs, from John Finnemore and his troop, here's my best stab at creating a chronology, with advice, corrections, and additions from many.
Rich Johnston, Bleeding Cool, 11th June 2021Souvenir Programme might just be a work of radio genius
As the final episode of the mind-bending tragi-comedy sketch show airs, Jonn Elledge speaks to its creator about the genesis of a show born of limitations.
Jonn Elledge, The Big Issue, 10th June 2021