Michael Frayn's Pocket Playhouse

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Michael Frayn's Pocket Playhouse: Episode 4

Episode 4

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

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

From a surprising travel programme to memory lapses – an all-star cast’s comic take on life. Starring Joanna Lumley. 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.

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

*   Joanna Lumley presents a surprising travel programme
*   Janie Dee and Alex Jennings have memory lapses, and the ensemble provides an unusual restaurant menu. 
*   Alex Jennings fronts a manic infomercial
*   Gyles Brandreth chairs the TV-watching Championships, assisted by Nigel Anthony and George Blagden
*   Alfred Molina and Yeni Alvarez speak "international English"
*   Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres wonder what's really happening on the radio. 

Director: Martin Jarvis

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

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

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