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Curtains For Radio is an independent production company specialising in the production of comedy, drama, factual films and audio for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV.
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The Final Report
Premieres Bank Holiday Monday, 27th May 2013 at 11:30am on BBC RADIO 4
Starring Elaine Cassidy, Mark Heap, Ian McDiarmid, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Tony Gardner and Michael Feast
Haunchurst College is threatened with takeover by a notorious cult, “The Constancy”. …
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A Cymbal Tale – The story of a 175 year old cymbal
A CYMBAL TALE
Writer, comedian and rock drummer Andrew McGibbon, aka Andrew Paresi, tells the story of a 175-year-old cymbal and explores the history of the instrument.
He traces the earliest cymbals from ancient Assyria and China, their development …
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Tony Gardner, Phil Cornwell and Daisy Haggard star in ‘Mike Duggan’, Friday April 5th 2013 at 23:40 BST, BBC R4. Watch series episodes below
THE CORNWELL 4
Phil Cornwell (Mrs Biggs) plays four separate characters in this series of short films based on the BBC series, The Cornwell Estate
Stars Tony Gardner (Last Tango in Halifax, Fresh Meat), Daisy Haggard (Psychoville…
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The Pickerskill Reports starring Sheridan Smith and Ian McDiarmid, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 10th and 11th May 2013
BBC Radio 4Extra Friday 17th May at 0700, 17:30 and Saturday 18th May at 05:30
Starring Ian McDiarmid and Sheridan Smith
Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon
EPISODE 3 – TIMOTHY SPOONTZ – 11TH SEPTEMBER 2011
When the new progressive …
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Latest Blog Posts
David Quantick asks is oo err missing because it’s just going too fnar, fnar?
When I was a lad, all comedy was double entendre. All of it. Every single aspect of British culture had been fed through a Carry On filter, Donald McGillised and nudge nudged with a wink wink. If you didn’t have …
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Andrew McGibbon wonders what it’s like being looked down on by half the world’s population.
In the absence of a war economy, the great military corporations of the latter half of the 20th century, turned their plants, returning manpower and considerable resources to selling a peacetime economy. “We desperately need!” was replaced with “You desperately …
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Louise Morris reveals why political dissent in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, isn’t music to the ears of the right wing government
The city’s sprawl is vast, 77.6 square miles of grinding poverty and violent desperation, a transit point for cocaine smuggling into the US, and the centre of a new cultural boom. This is Tegucigalpa, Honduras. With the highest murder rate …
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