British Comedy Guide

Schedule Sunday 5th November 2023

Radio 4 4:30pm
30 min
Open books.. Credit: BBC

The Exploding Library

Series 3, Episode 2 - The Unfortunates, by BS Johnson

Hirsute comedian and crumpled polymath Rob Auton shuffles through BS Johnson's 1969 novel The Unfortunates, a book published in a box with 27 sections to be read in a random order.

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Who Runs The World?. Catherine Bohart

Who Runs The World?

Episode 1 - All The Single Ladies

Catherine Bohart's learns about the disproportionate hurdles faced by women in politics, before asking Labour MP Stella Creasy, "who the hell would even want to be a female politician?"

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