Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups: Series 1-5

Comedian Tom Wrigglesworth phones home for his weekly check-in with Mum and Dad.

Listen in on award-winning comedian Tom Wrigglesworth’s family phone calls in these five fantastic series 
 
‘A keenly observed, comical joy’ Stuart Heritage, The Guardian 
 
In these 24 episodes, Tom Wrigglesworth phones home for his weekly check-in, giving us a funny, fascinating glimpse into his family background and the influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and hang-ups. As the conversations unfold, Tom takes time out from the calls to explain the situation and his parents’ reactions, and relate various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his family's views. 
 
And sometimes he just needs to sound-off about life’s everyday annoyances. There’s the fact his parents don’t trust him with his own car or sister, some terrifying stag weekend shenanigans, a neighbourly good deed that lands Tom in trouble and a dodgy exchange on a train. Meanwhile, Mum and Dad deal with a problematic package holiday, a flood at the family home, an unexpected Christmas visitor and some new neighbours – while Gran enters the cut-throat world of competitive well-dressing, tries to help Tom with a ‘gambling situation’ and gets involved in smuggling. 
 
But amid the trials and tribulations, there are triumphs, as Dad celebrates a milestone in governmental reform, Mum learns to drive and Tom recounts a milestone in his own life – the arrival of his newborn twin daughters. 
 
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups lets us eavesdrop on the Wrigglesworth clan in all their dysfunctional glory – so sit back and enjoy a bit of totally legal phone hacking in thesehilarious helpings of down-the-line adventures.Tom Wrigglesworth stars as himself, with Judy Parfitt, Rita May and Elizabeth Bennett as Granny, Paul Copley as Dad, Kate Anthony as Mum and Amy Wrigglesworth as Amy.

The Complete Series 1-4

In and Out of the Kitchen

Miles Jupp stars as fussy food writer Damien Trench in the complete four series of this much-loved BBC Radio 4 sitcom.

Miles Jupp stars as fussy food writer Damien Trench in the complete four series of this much-loved BBC Radio 4 sitcom. 
 
Well-known cookery writer Damien Trench is famous for his book A Year in the Kitchen, a diary of everything he cooked and ate over the course of 12 months. Now, for the follow-up volume, In and Out of the Kitchen, Damien undertakes to open up the doors "not only to my kitchen, but also to my life". But is Damien’s life as idyllic as his listeners might suppose? 
 
During the course of these 22 episodes, we follow the ups and downs of life for Damien and his partner, Anthony, as Damien films a pilot for his TV series Poets and their Palates, appears at a literary festival, dips his toe into the world of journalism, contends with the well-meaning interference of friends, looks after a baby, and plans his wedding. 
 
Many of Damien’s recipes are included along the way. As he himself might say, enjoy - and more importantly, cook.

Miles Jupp

Ten lively literary investigations

Miles Jupp probes mysteries both fictional and autobiographical in these ten radio investigations 
 
Actor and comedian Miles Jupp puts his inquiring mind and talent for comic analysis to work, as he turns his quizzical gaze on the world of fiction. 
 
In these ten entertaining documentaries, he explores why some books, games and binge-watched box sets are, as they say, 'literally unputdownable'; peers into Plotto, an ingenious manual of story devices, to discover whether it really can make writing easy; takes a sideways look at some familiar characters from literature, including James Bond, Dracula, Fu Manchu and Carruthers; delves into the intricacies of the locked-room murder; and revisits his old prep school to find out whether a book of stirring 19th-century verse can work its magic on today's young people. And there's a shock in store for Miles as, researching his Huguenot ancestors, he finds cracks appearing in his family tree... 
 
Included in this collection are: 
Miles Jupp is Literally Unputdownable 
Miles Jupp and the Plot Device 
The Soviet James Bond 
The Woman Who Invented James Bond? 
The Trainspotter's Guide to Dracula 
Miles Jupp in a Locked Room 
Fu Manchu in Edinburgh 
By Jove, Carruthers! 
Miles Jupp's Muscular Lines 
Miles Jupp is Insufficiently Belgian 
 
 
Production credits 
Presented by Miles Jupp 
Produced by David Stenhouse 
Actor: David Jackson Young, with additional contributions from Crawford Logan, David Rintoul and Samantha Bond 
 
Miles Jupp is Literally Unputdownable first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 28 June 2020 
Featuring DJ Taylor; Paula Hawkins; Jed Mercurio; Will Storr and Frederick Forsyth 
 
Miles Jupp and the Plot Device first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2015 
Featuring Mike Ashley; Professor Paul Collins of the University of Portland Oregon; John Harvey; Jeffrey Marks; Val McDermid and Damon Rochefort 
 
The Soviet James Bond first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18 December 2014 
Commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and produced by BBC Radio Scotland 
Featuring Professor Ian Christie of Birkbeck College; Mark Liederman, Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder; Olga Semyonova; Vitali Vitaliev and Simon Winder 
 
The Woman Who Invented James Bond? first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 10 December 2016 
Featuring Pam Hirsch; John Pearson; Nigel West and Simon Winder 
 
The Trainspotter's Guide to Dracula first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31 October 2017 
Featuring Sir Christopher Frayling; Andras Hlavacska; Zita Hummer; Tudor Salajan; Alexandru Simon and Dacre Stoker 
 
Miles Jupp in a Locked Room first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 21 May 2012 
Featuring Robert Adey; Mike Ashley; Paul Doherty; Jasper Fforde; Christopher Fowler; Paul Halter; Daniel Mallory; Denise Mina; John Pugmire and Soji Shamada 
 
Fu Manchu in Edinburgh first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6 April 2010 
Featuring Sascha Auerbach; Paul Bailey; Alan Bennell; Grant Buttars; Owen Dudley Edwards; Bill Maynard; Dr Jonathan Murray; Matthew Sweet and Shenxiao Tong 
Reader: Crawford Logan 
 
By Jove, Carruthers! first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12 May 2009 
Featuring Louis Barfe; Owen Dudley Edwards; Bruce Durie; Roger Johnson; Sam Llewellyn and Celia Mitchell 
 
Miles Jupp's Muscular Lines first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 3 January 2010 
Featuring Leslie Barr; Colonel Tim Collins, OBE; Owen Dudley Edwards; Sir Ranulph Fiennes and vox pops with pupils from St George's School, Windsor Castle 
 
Miles Jupp is Insufficiently Belgian first broadcast BBC Radio 4, 25 March 2015 
Written by Miles Jupp and David Stenhouse with additional material by James Kettle 
Featuring Nick Barrett; Bella Jupp, Gillian Jupp, Rob Jupp, Rupert Jupp, Thomas Jupp, Christine Sas and Lieven Schiere

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