The Burkiss Way
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 1976 - 1980
- 48 episodes (6 series)
Radio sketch show with Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris. Also features Denise Coffey.
Press clippings
When is a listing not a listing? When it's a gag...
Let's face it, Radio Times billings are supposed to tell you what a programme is about, who is in it, when it's on, and that kind of useful information. But sometimes, they veer off course...
Andrew Martin, BBC, 22nd December 2020After the recent collection of disastrously unfunny new comedy it is a relief to see Week Ending (Friday, Radio 4) returning. The Burkiss Way had its adherents, and I even met a man who smiled at Radio Burps but The Chronicles of The Soppy Family was plain awful. Do you remember that classic Charles Addams cartoon of the solitary man in the audience chuckling happily away as all around wept and hid their faces? He must be somewhere in Broadcasting House these days.
Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 21st October 1977