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The Brig Society

The CoBrig Society

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

A one-off special edition of the show where Marcus Brigstocke is put in charge of things – and this time, it's Covid. How has society changed, how should we prepare for the future, and are there any of those baked potatoes left?

Helping him tear the mask off the whole subject and then realising that's probably a bad expression under the circumstances are Margaret Cabourn-Smith (“John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme”), William Andrews (“Sorry I’ve Got No Head”) and Rufus Jones (“Paddington”, "Home")

Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Katie Storey, Dan Tetsell and Zoë Tomalin

Produced by David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for the BBC

www.pozzitive.co.uk

The Brig Society began the first of its four series to date in 2013, following on from Marcus's long stint as the backpacking idiot Giles Wemmbley Hogg. Each week, Marcus would be put in charge of something – Housing, Farming, Diplomacy, Exams, the NHS – and each week he'd start out by thinking “Well, it can’t be that difficult, surely?” and end up with “Oh - it’s utterly difficult and I’ve made a complete fist of it...”

The show won the 2014 Writers' Guild Award and a Silver at the New York International Programme awards Show less

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