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Parody Please: 3. People Like Us & Dead Ringers

3. People Like Us & Dead Ringers

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Radio self-parody explored by a surprising range of celebrity voices - and also Jan Ravens

Concluding radio's long history of self- parody. Co-presented by an array of favourite on-air personalities with assistance from Jan Ravens.  From 2017.

The history of radio's ability to parody itself goes back almost to the birth of radio. The range of this parody is so wide - news, current affairs, drama, the arts, phone-ins, investigative journalism - that the production team on this programme decided that a single presenter simply wouldn't do it justice. 

Co-presented by a truly exceptional range of favourite radio voices, including Charlotte Green and Kirsty Young and Ruth from the Archers, who collectively explore why radio is the best medium for parody, and its important role in our society, perhaps today more than ever. 

In the last of three programmes, Jan Ravens joins this roster of celebrities to talk with the distinguished radio critic Gilllian Reynolds CBE.

‘People Like Us: The Pilot’ [02/08/1997 BBC Radio 4]

‘Dead Ringers’ [24/06/2016 BBC Radio 4]

Producer: Beaty Rubens.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March 2017.

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