The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
- Radio comedy drama
- BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 7
- 2008 - 2020
- 18 episodes (2 series)
Radio comedies in which sketch group The Penny Dreadfuls - aka Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck - present plays around historical subjects. Also features Ingrid Oliver and Miles Jupp.
The Penny Dreadfuls Present... trivia
The Faversham family also appear in the stage shows performed by The Penny Dreadfuls, in particular Victorian explorer and dandy Aeneas Faversham, which was the name of their first show, followed by Aeneas Faversham Returns and Aeneas Faversham Forever.
The Penny Dreadfuls Present... was the first original BBC 7 comedy broadcast after the station rebranded and became BBC Radio 7.
The second series of The Penny Dreadfuls Present... was commissioned before the first series had been broadcast.
In Victorian Britain, a "Penny Dreadful" was the name given to cheap ficition books containing sensationalist stories.