Michael Frayn's Pocket Playhouse

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Ian McKellen

Nigel Anthony

Lisa Dillon

Edward Bennett

Janie Dee

Martin Jarvis

Alex Jennings

Rosalind Ayres

George Blagden

Darren Richardson

Joanna Lumley

Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn's Pocket Playhouse: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Michael Frayn's Pocket Playhouse, Episode 2

Martin Jarvis collaborates with Michael Frayn in this all-star comic tour-de-force.

From Listen with Mother to helpline problems – an all-star cast with a comic take on life. Stars Sir Ian McKellen. From 2018.

Martin Jarvis directs Michael Frayn’s masterly comic series with an outstanding cast led by Ian McKellen, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Alfred Molina, Alex Jennings and Jarvis himself.

Michael Frayn - author of Noises Off - is the most comic philosophical writer of our time.

Each episode reveals his infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction, TV and the media, the church, relationships - life in general.

*    Darren Richardson conducts a misguided sight-seeing tour
*    Ian McKellen has Helpline difficulties
*    Nigel Anthony and Joanna Lumley revisit Listen With Mother 
*    Martin Jarvis attempts to broadcast from The Royal Opera House
*    Alex Jennings and Janie Dee are a confused married couple
*    George Blagden is an unusually literate weatherman 
*    Ian McKellen, as Richard III, is interrupted by footnote scholars

Director: Martin Jarvis

A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2018.

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

Comedy: Sketch

Short entertainments based on Frayn's acclaimed book of comic dialogues and monologues

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