| Programme Name: | Details: |
|---|---|
| Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive | ...DAVID MITCHELL and John Sessions ... |
| Black Swan Green | ...By DAVID MITCHELL, abridged by Roger Pine, read by Stuart McLoughlin.... |
| Bookclub | ...From the Hay Festival, James Naughtie and an audience of readers talk to DAVID MITCHELL to discuss Cloud Atlas, the novel that made him an overnight literary star. The book explores slavery in six nested stories that move from the remote South Pacific in the 19th Century to the far future after a nuclear apocalypse.... |
| Comedy Showcase | ...by Keiron Self and Giles New. Justin used to think his life was pretty bad until Gwyn came along and made him realise that his problems were totally insignificant. After all, it is never good news when your best friend is an elf on the run from dark forces. Starring Desmond Barrit, Darren Boyd, Mina Anwar, Anna Wing, DAVID MITCHELL and Simon Greenall ... |
| Daydream Believers | ...Daydream Believers, written by, and starring, DAVID MITCHELL and Robert Webb, follows the parallel stories of flatmates, tetchy Ray and aimless Colin, and the mighty alien empire of Baron Amstrad and his hi-tech android, Info.... |
| Death Of Grass, The | ...Narrator....DAVID MITCHELL... |
| Desert Island Discs | ...DAVID MITCHELL... |
| Footlights At 125 - A Retrospective | ...Original material comes from Peter Cook, DAVID MITCHELL, Griff Rhys Jones, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and others. Performed by Mel Giedroyc, Lucy Montgomery, James Bachman, John Finnemore, Geoff McGivern and Simon Munnery.... |
| Front Row | ...With John Wilson, including an interview with writer DAVID MITCHELL, best known for his Booker-nominated novels 'number9dream' and Cloud Atlas.... |
| Galton And Simpson's Half Hour | The legendary writing partnership of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson began in 1949, when the pair met whilst undergoing treatment for TB at Milford Sanitorium. By 1951 they were writing professionally for the BBC and they have since written over 600 scripts and won numerous awards for their work on radio, TV and film, including Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe And Son. Radio 2 marks the 60th anniversary of their writing partnership with a series of half-hour comedies, starring Frank Skinner, Mitchell & Webb, Rik Mayall, June Whitfield and Paul Merton. They were originally written for television by Ray and Alan and have been especially adapted by them for Radio 2. Paul Merton introduces each episode. ...Starring DAVID MITCHELL and Robert Webb.... |
| Giles Wemmbley-hogg Goes Off | Meet Giles Wemmbley Hogg - 2M's, 2G's. Traveller, backpacker, fearless investigator of cultural diversity, and upper middle-class student ponce from Budleigh Salterton. Written and conceived by Marcus Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby with additional material by Graeme Garden. performed by Marcus Brigstocke. ...... |
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| Heresy | ...Former host David Baddiel makes a special appearance, joined by DAVID MITCHELL and Rev Richard Coles ... |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue | ...Jack Dee chairs. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-taylor and DAVID MITCHELL.... |
| Just A Minute | ...Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with panellists Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock and DAVID MITCHELL ... |
| News Quiz, The | ...Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Danielle Ward, DAVID MITCHELL and Francis Wheen.... |
| Night Waves (summary) | ...DAVID MITCHELL, author of the Man Booker prize shortlisted novel Cloud Atlas, talks to Matthew Sweet about his new book Black Swan Green.... |
| Radio 4 Appeal, The | ...DAVID MITCHELL appeals on behalf of the British Stammering Association.... |
| That Mitchell And Webb Sound | ...Comedy sketch show starring DAVID MITCHELL and Robert Webb. With Olivia Colman and James Bachman.... |
| Think The Unthinkable | ...The management consultants plug into media technology. Stars Marcus Brigstocke and DAVID MITCHELL. From November 2002.... |
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| Unbelievable Truth, The | ...DAVID MITCHELL hosts the game show in which panellists are encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.... |
| Until Morning | ...By Bathsheba Doran. A mother visits her son and his flatmate on the anniversary of his father's death. Her appearance sets off a look at religious conviction, the environment, smoking, squirrels and smoking squirrels... With Rachel Atkins, DAVID MITCHELL, Darren Boyd and Michael Brett Drennan. Directed by Toby Smith.... |
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| Very Nearly An Armful - The Galton And Simpson Story | ...As well as hearing from the writers themselves, contributors to the documentary include DAVID MITCHELL, Ben Elton, Denis Norden and Damaris Hayman. Archive interviewees include Tony Hancock, Sid James and Harry H Corbett.... |