Weak at the Top

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Alexander Armstrong stars as a high-powered marketing director minus morals and few brains

Alexander Armstrong stars as a high-powered marketing director with no morals and hardly any brains. Comedy by Guy Browning.

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Marketeer John Weak has got a chocolate bar crisis. How to improve sales - fast?

Marketeer John Weak has got a chocolate bar crisis. How to improve sales - fast? Stars Alexander Armstrong. From July 2006.

John Weak reveals the feminist metatext of an advertisement for a bar of chocolate.  

It features a bikini-clad model with lips that could suck the hair shirt off a Benedictine monk at 50 yards...

Randy, devious, sexist and workshy, John Weak puts the man into management – in Guy Browning’s sitcom.

Starring Alexander Armstrong as the marketing maestro and "totty" magnet.  

John Weak ...... Alexander Armstrong
Hayley ...... Clare Perkins 
Sir Marcus ...... Geoffrey Whitehead 
Bill Peters ...... Ron Cook 
Sasha ...... Tracy Wiles 
Tibet ...... Adjoa Andoh 
Ski Guy ...... Kim Wall

Producer: Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006.

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Comedy series about a high-powered Marketing Director with no morals and hardly any brains

Comedy series about a high-powered Marketing Director with no morals and hardly any brains. Written by Guy Browning

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