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Patrick Marber and Peter Curran grapple in the dark with the wonders and woes of life.

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BUNK BED

Bunk Bed: Series 3: 5. The Cynical Use of Xylophones

5. The Cynical Use of Xylophones

Series 3

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Patrick Marber and Peter Curran stumble through the darkness in conversation.

Peter Curran and Patrick Marber allow strange late-night thoughts of the cynical use of xylophones to drift on air. From 2016.

Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. 

Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander.

This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter Curran. 

Here they try to get the heart of things in an entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place for typical male banter. 
From under the bed clothes they play each other music, and archive of Angela Carter, ex-Prime Ministers, a Castrato singer, and an elephant playing the piano.

Work, family, literature, and their own badly-scuffed dreams are the funny, if warped conversational currency.

A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2018.

Bunk Bed: Series 3

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Peter Curran and Patrick Marber allow strange late-night thoughts to drift onto the air in this acclaimed series of late-night nonsense.

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