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Listen Against. Image shows from L to R: Alice Arnold, Jon Holmes. Copyright: BBC
Listen Against

Listen Against

  • Radio sketch show
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2007 - 2011
  • 16 episodes (4 series)

Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes, Listen Against uses actual BBC footage and presenters to create a surreal broadcasting world. Also features James Bachman, Justin Edwards, David Mara, Catherine Shepherd, Kim Wall and more.

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Series 1, Episode 2

Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes reveal Radio 1's first two year old DJ; introduce the 'sigh line' for exasperated listeners; report on the Question Time complaints; reveal how The Archers is made; and more.

Broadcast details

Date
Wednesday 21st November 2007
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Jon Holmes Host / Presenter
Alice Arnold Host / Presenter
James Bachman Ensemble Actor
David Mara Ensemble Actor
Kim Wall Ensemble Actor
Rachel Atkins Ensemble Actor
Guest cast
Katy Kavanagh Ensemble Actor
Writing team
Bill Dare Writer
Joel Morris Writer
Jason Hazeley Writer
Gareth Gwynn Writer
Jon Holmes Writer
Jonathan Harvey Writer (Additional Material)
Adam Buxton Writer (Additional Material)
Production team
Jon Holmes Producer
Bill Dare Producer

Press

In these hi-tech modern times you now, of course, have the added opportunity of catching up with radio programmes you have missed or want to listen to again via the stations' websites. With so much on offer, Listen Against's Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes decided the copious amounts of material could do with a bit of drastic editing - in other words, they hoped to present all the right snippets but not necessarily in the right order.

Thanks to some clever editing, there were some funny news items from the previous week's radio, not least the contestant taking part in Ken Bruce's Radio 2 Popmaster quiz, who had an interminable list of people he wanted to say hello to and the light entertainment meltdown when a laptop containing the subjects for the next 10,000 episodes of Just A Minute was lost.

Lisa Martland, The Stage, 24th November 2008

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