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The Brig Society

Comedy: Satire

Comedy series in which, each week, Marcus Brigstocke is put in charge of a 'big thing'.

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The Brig Society: Series 1

Marcus Brigstocke

Rufus Jones

William Andrews

Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Jeremy Salsby

Toby Davies

Nick Doody

Steve Punt

Tom Neenan

David Tyler

The Brig Society: Series 1: Episode 3: Prison

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Radicalisation and the difficulties of dining hall protest tray-banging syncopation.

Marcus Brigstocke looks into overcrowding, rehabilitation, radicalisation and the difficulties of dining hall protest tray-banging syncopation. With Rufus Jones. From July 2013.

Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing!

Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of a big old thing - a hospital, the railways, British fashion, a prison. And each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who knew...?"

This week, Marcus has been volunteered to run a prison - so while he's serving his thirty-minute term, he'll be looking into such urgent issues as overcrowding, rehabilitation, radicalisation and the difficulties of dining-hall protest tray-banging syncopation.

Banged up with him are Rufus Jones (Hunderby, Holy Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've Got No Head) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda).

The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler, who also produces Marcus' appearances as the inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg.

Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Tom Neenan.

Produced by David Tyler
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Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing!

Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! Comedy with the English comedian as he takes charge of various British institutions and learns that they really are as hard as he thought

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