Tomorrow, Today!
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2006 - 2008
- 10 episodes (2 series)
Radio comedy set in the 1960s in which a BBC producer is struggling to make a futuristic sci-fi radio soap. Stars Joseph Kloska, Peter Bowles, Cheryl Campbell, John Fortune, Gary Waldhorn and more.
Episode menu
Series 2, Episode 1 - Dr Chaotica And The Rise Of The Atomic Man-Bees
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 28th January 2008
- Time
- 11:30am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Joseph Kloska | Hugo Kellerman |
| Peter Bowles | Nigel Lavery |
| Cheryl Campbell | Sylvia Hann |
| John Fortune | Godfrey Winnard |
| Gary Waldhorn | Sir Angus McNairn |
| Jon Glover | Douglas Bennings |
| Sam Pamphilon | Keith Wood |
| Rachel Atkins | Mrs Tinkler |
| Lloyd Thomas | Graham Tinkler |
| Alex Lanipekun | Delivery Boy |
| Christopher William Hill | Writer |
| Liz Webb | Producer |
Press
Tomorrow, Today! is set in a BBC recording studio in 1962, where a cluster of disappointed hacks labour through a terrible sci-fi script and try not to kill each other in the process.
Who cares? It's so silly I doubt anyone's listening anyway,
sulked Sylvia (played by Cheryl Campbell), which were my thoughts exactly.
Everyone, from the writer Christopher William Hill down, seems to have had a whale of a time making this comedy set in the past but concerning a radio soap that takes place in 2008.
And you can see why. Two worlds are your oyster, and events in both of them are known. In 1962 you have all the events going on that happened then - reds under the bed, mainly - while the 2008 stuff that the characters in the soap imagine would be commonplace now (still with me?) provokes the usual knowing laughter that comes from knowing how wrong they got it.
Toss in rampant paranoia along the lines of 1984 (the book, not the year), a death or two and a first-rate cast (Peter Bowles, Cheryl Campbell and John Fortune) and you have something that should come to boil nicely over the next six weeks.
Chris Campling, The Times, 28th January 2008