Mid Morning Matters With Alan Partridge

Series two of the faultless Mid Morning Matters concludes. Series one's finale was pitched perfectly and so is this, with trouble brewing on the home front between Alan and Angela, and then at work with Sidekick Simon, who could be about to betray Alan in the most grievous manner. As one might expect, Alan's inner turmoil spills out into "North Norfolk's best music mix". Coogan and co hit a perfectly calibrated sweet spot where poignant meets snortingly funny.

Alan has achieved a certain calm in his middle years. He's still insensitive and clumsy, but he's also at home in his surroundings. Accordingly, these local radio vignettes bumble happily along; never particularly eventful but still overflowing with effortlessly amusing essence d'Alan. Tonight, our hero accidentally convinces his listeners that Russia has invaded Cromer, before an addiction special during which his old sparring partner Dave Clifton confesses he once had a drunken fight with a snowman.

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I was a little disappointed at first when I watched Alan Partridge's new series on Sky Atlantic, but for a while I couldn't work out why. Everything seemed to be in place, from the foot-in-mouth soundbites to Sidekick Simon to the terrible midde-aged clothes to the feeble attempts to appear down with the North Norfolk Digital kids.

Then I realised what the problem was. The Alpha Papa film was so brilliant at opening up Alan and giving him more space to breathe and make a sad twat of himself that suddenly this radio studio-based version doesn't work quite so well. I wanted Alan to be out on the road miming along to Roachford's Cuddly Toy, not quizzing posh foxhunter Sir Cecil Crooms-Phillips.

The magnificent Mid Morning Matters returns, with north Norfolk's favourite digital radio host, Alan Partridge, in the finest of fettle. The station has a new boss; Alan has a new "bird" (in Angela, making for some pleasing continuity from the Alpha Papa film); and he's even flexing his muscles in the realm of radio drama. Alan and Sidekick Simon also welcome Sir Cecil Phillips, the leader of the controversial North Norfolk Hunt, into the booth. It is perfection.

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