As mentioned in episode 2 of Bull: Rupert Bull's Website. The show is on Wednesdays at 10pm on GOLD and on SkyGo, Now TV and places like that afterwards.
Tonight sees the first episode of Bull go out - A brand new sitcom written by me and John-Luke Roberts starring Robert Lindsay, Maureen Lipman, Naz Osmanoglu and Claudia Jessie - With episode one featuring Matt Lucas and Tim Brooke-Taylor. You'll find it on GOLD (Sky:110 / Virgin:126 / BT:310) every Wednesday at 10pm for the next 3 weeks. If you miss it, it's repeated on Saturdays (10.20pm), Tuesdays (7.20pm) and will also be available on Sky Go. For more details on the show, do check out the John Stanley Productions website, there's a lovely write-up here by Bruce Dessau, and I've done an interview and written a few words about the show for the Western Mail - concentrating on the props. Because if you can't do that for a show based in an antique shop, when can you do it?
Tickets are now available for Ankle Tag - a new sitcom for BBC Radio 2 I have written with Benjamin Partridge and which stars Elis James and Katy Wix. Details on the show, and how you can be in the audience on the 17th October, are all available from the BBC Tours And Shows website. And while we're on the subject of sitcoms, as the 21st October approaches, there are more and more bits from Bull appearing online. Bull is a brand new sitcom for GOLD written by John-Luke Roberts and I and starring Robert Lindsay, Maureen Lipman, Naz Osmanoglu and Claudia Jessie - some of whom you can see in the clip below.
Well, there it is! The first trail for Bull, a new sitcom for GOLD written by John-Luke Roberts and I and starring Robert Lindsay, Maureen Lipman, Naz Osmanoglu, Claudia Jessie plus a whole host of guest stars (some of whom I think we are going to try to keep secret - although you can spot Matt Lucas in the trail above). It starts on October 21st and runs for three weeks. And while you're waiting for that to hit your screens, you'll be pleased to know I've finally updated the "Podcasts and Videos" section of this website, where you'll now find links to the documentariesI've made for BBC Radio 4, my appearances on The Now Show, some bits and bobs from my BBC Radio Wales show and lots of other things that may or may not quite fit the description of "Podcast" or "Video".
It was Sandi Toksvig's last News Quiz as host this week and I got to make this montage for the end of the show - There are certainly worse ways to spend a day than listening to 9 years of News Quizzes.
And then, at the end, I put all the master tapes in the wrong boxes to really screw things up for the next person who tries. And while we're on the subject of archives, both BBC Radio Wales, and BBC Radio 4 Extra have been repeating old episodes of Elis James' Pantheon of Heroes. Producer Sharif Shahwan has taken the opportunity to start a clips page - perfect for people who always wished our show was 2-3 mins long.
Although Episode 1 only went out on Saturday, BBC Radio Wales have put the first three episodes online already, as well as a short animation featuring a magpie. While you're on the BBC Radio Wales website, you'll be able to listen to my most recent weekend shows, which include interviews with Milton Jones and John Inman - the man behind the rudder of BBC Four's remarkable All Aboard! I also took the opportunity to play the cut-ups and clips I'd prepared for the final episode of BBC Radio 4's Vote Now Showwhich history rendered obsolete... You can hear the jokes and clips that did make it on the BBC Radio 4 website.
Sketchland is a brand new comedy show produced by BBC Scotland
showcasing up-and-coming Scottish writers and performers. Together with Jon Hunter, I script edited the show all about leaving home, which is
currently available on BBC iPlayer together with
all sorts of online extras.
Having
said that, the programme has left a permanent mark on my record collection and
could be the only radio show where the entirety of the presenter's fee ended up
being ploughed back into records (That's proper records. Not downloads. My
Welsh is very poor so I really need the lyric booklets).
It
was such a huge topic to cover, and our contributors all so helpful, the show could
easily have been an hour - Hours, even. That's why I wanted to write this post,
which acts as a cross between "References" and "Further
reading".
First
of all, I want you to stop what you are doing right now and enjoy Gareth
Potter's fantastic S4C documentary "Gadael yr 20fed Ganrif". It's on YouTube and
subtitled so you have no excuse.
As
it is both about music and subtitled it looks like it was built to be broadcast
on BBC Four on a Friday night - Like a cross between their usual Friday night music
docs and The Killing. A ratings winner if ever I saw one.
Also,
do seek out our impartial American, Sarah Hill's book "Blerwytirhwng?
- ... " and if you want to hear a Mancunian take on all this, check out Andy Vottel and James Hale's BBC Radio 4 documentary
from a few years ago Free Wales Harmony.
And
finally, a little sample of the sort of thing I'll undoubtedly now be trying to
creep onto my BBC Radio Wales shows...
On 31st January, Lloyd Langford and I stepped in to cover Rhod Gilbert's BBC Radio Wales show. The whole thing is still available both on the Radio Wales website and as a podcast, where you'll also find plenty of other editions of the show, featuring a perfectly healthy Rhod Gilbert. I've also been writing for The Now Show, contributing material to sections such as this one, taken from last Friday's show.
Next week Ankle Tag, a sitcom pilot written by myself and Benjamin Partridge and starring Elis James, Katy Wix, Philip Fox, Asim Chaudhry, Alice Lowe and Bryony Hannah will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2. 
