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Alexei Sayle's The Absence of Normal

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Alexei Sayle's highly acclaimed hilarious short stories dramatised for the radio.

Alexei Sayle's highly acclaimed hilarious short stories dramatised for the radio, starring some of the UK's foremost comic actors and introduced and narrated by the author.

Alexei Sayle's The Absence of Normal: Series 1: The Minister for Death

The Minister for Death

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - Alexei Sayle's The Absence of Normal, Series 1, The Minister for Death

Dark comic plays narrated by Alexei Sayle and adapted from his original short stories.

Episode 3: The Minister for Death 

Alexei Sayle’s The Absence of Normal is a series of dark comic plays narrated by Alexei Sayle and adapted for radio from his original short stories.

The Minister for Death is the story of a Liverpudlian pensioner who turns the tables on a would be mugger and in the process rediscovers an unhealthy lust for murder.  

Starring Paul Barber, Lewis MacLeod, Shaun Mason, Freya Parker and Frances Tomelty.

Written and narrated by Alexei Sayle.  Adapted for Radio by Graham Duff.

Produced by Joe Nunnery 

A BBC Studios Production

Alexei Sayle's The Absence of Normal: Series 1

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