Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation
- Radio stand-up
- BBC Radio 4
- 1993 - 2014
- 48 episodes (10 series)
Radio 4 series in which Jeremy Hardy presents a series of humorous lectures on a vast range of different subjects. Stars Jeremy Hardy, Stephen Frost, Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy, Meera Syal and more.
Press clippings Page 2
Town cancels comic's show over BNP joke
Burnley council has cancelled a performance by the comedian Jeremy Hardy after he said members and supporters of the BNP should be shot in the head.
Helen Carter, The Guardian, 3rd November 2004The problem about being an angry young man - or, indeed, woman - used to be knowing when you are not so young any more. But series such as television's Grumpy Old Men show that it is OK to stay angry, like John Osborne, well into middle age. Back with more polemical lectures, Jeremy Hardy has decided, aged 43, to live each day as if it is his last. For him that means lying half-awake in bed all day. You may not share Hardy's world view, but his knack of being cosy and confrontational ("Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East") usually keeps him a step ahead of one's expectations.
Chris Campling, The Times, 9th September 2004I've always thought that the title of this long-running series of ruminations on The World As We Know It would have been better titled Jeremy Hardy Divides the Nation. There are those who love him for his curmudgeonly, 1970s Old Labour take on everything, and those who don't. Me, I think that those who don't tend to feel that a posh kid from Surrey shouldn't be such a red flag-waving radical, and doubt his motives. Or perhaps they just don't think he's funny. Either way, I have no hesitation in nominating this latest series because a) I think he's brilliant and b) there is every chance that he will say something so acute and so funny that you'd be a fool to miss it.
Chris Campling, The Times, 4th September 2004