Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum
- Radio stand-up
- BBC Radio 4
- 2021 - 2022
- 8 episodes (2 series)
Adaptation of Tom Mayhew's 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show about signing-on. Also features Amy Gledhill.
- Series 2, Episode 3 repeated Friday at 11:15pm on Radio 4 Extra
Key details
- Genre
- Stand-Up
- Broadcast
- 2021 - 2022
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 8 (2 series)
- Stars
- Tom Mayhew and Amy Gledhill
- Writers
- Tom Mayhew and Olivia Phipps
- Producers
- Benjamin Sutton and Victoria Lloyd
- Company
Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum is an autobiographical stand-up series where comedian Tom Mayhew shares stories about his life growing up working class and his time on benefits. The show takes a wry, sideways look at the prejudices that people have towards benefits claimants and turns those assumptions on their head.
Tom Mayhew is a critically acclaimed comedian, whose material about being working-class - mixing the personal and the political, with the punchline-rate of a one-liner comic - sets him apart from any other act on the circuit. Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum is an audio adaptation of Mayhew's acclaimed Edinburgh show I, Tom Mayhew, which transferred to a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre.
Catch-up
Additional details
- Also known as
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- I, Tom Mayhew (Working title)
- Production
- Studio
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 3rd March 2021 at 11pm on BBC Radio 4
- Next repeats
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- Series 2, Episode 3: Friday at 11:15pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Series 2, Episode 4: Friday 18th April at 11:15pm on Radio 4 Extra
- Most recent repeats
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- Friday 4th April 2025 at 11:15pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 2
- Friday 28th March 2025 at 11:15pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 1
- Friday 30th August 2024 at 10:45pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 1, Episode 4
Recording details
- Zoom (Virtual) - Series 1
- Frog & Bucket - Series 2