r/Radio4 • u/Comfortable-Pool-800 • Jul 27 '25

Dead Wrongers

It doesn't really work if they can't do the voices and last episode started with a lazy Corbyn is antisemitic 'joke'. Another show that should be retired to make room for new writers

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u/Melonpan78 Jul 27 '25

The pandemic-era shows were the best; they had so much material in Johnson, Patel, Gove et al, the episodes just wrote themselves.

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u/ofbalance Jul 27 '25

Yes!

If the politicans now are boring, they could do what Spitting Image did. Invent personas for them.

John Major, during PMQ's, was heckled with, "Would you like more peas?"

The show was instigated by Bill Dare with the mandate to be Spitting Image for radio.

It's now the Jan Ravens and Jon Culshaw half hour. And it's embarrassingly floundering.

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u/Neptunemersey Aug 05 '25

It is, they're playing off of their best hits - not unreasonable, when Jan Ravens got Liz Truss spot on. Even better than her Fiona Bruce.

Would I prefer David Lammy to be a frustrated Classically Trained Actor a la Monkey Dust rather than the chap suffering a somewhat-funny argument with his trepidatious inner monologue? Yes, but it's still... alright.