British Comedy Guide
Time Spanner. Image shows from L to R: Mr Mergatroid (Jeremy Limb), Martin Gaye (Simon Kane), Daniel Kraken (David Mitchell), Laika (John Finnemore), Gabbie (London Hughes), Angel (Belinda Stewart-Wilson). Copyright: BBC
Time Spanner

Time Spanner

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2017 - 2018
  • 2 episodes

Radio sitcom about time travel. Stars Simon Kane, London Hughes, David Mitchell, John Finnemore, Jeremy Limb and Sally Phillips

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Press clippings

John Finnemore: Listen to Time Spanner

Simon's been working on it, in one form or another, for at least ten years; and it's been such a pleasure and an education to watch him refine it from a dazzling explosion of ideas and jokes and characters and umbrella-headed monks to this intricate, beautifully plotted half hour with a love story at its heart.

John Finnemore, 31st January 2017

Radio 4 to broadcast six comedy pilots on twelfth night

Radio 4 is to "illuminate January with the spirit of misrule" by broadcasting a series of comedy pilots of the twelfth night, the 7th January.

British Comedy Guide, 21st December 2016

David Mitchell and John Finnemore to star in Radio 4 sitcom

David Mitchell and John Finnemore are to star in Time Spanner, a time travel sitcom for Radio 4.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd May 2016

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