December 2024 - I Can't Get Over 2024

I Can't Get Over 2024 is a look back at the year presented by Esyllt Sears and I for BBC Radio Wales - featuring guests, archive and an ill-advised attempt at a political package recorded in Cardiff Bay. It's on-air in Christmas week, but you can get hold of the whole thing early by heading to BBC Sounds!

There are also 98 episodes (or 100 if you count the Best Ofs) of our comedy history podcast I'm So Not Over It currently available wherever you get your podcasts, including our most recent run of interviews featuring Elis James, Rosie Holt, Gav Murphy, Anu Vaidyanathan and Gemma Arrowsmith, as well as two live editions from the Aberystwyth Comedy Festival featuring Eleanor Morton. 

 

I have just recorded a short piece for Rosie Holt's podcast NonCensored as Tim Dolton - all about the Labour party's attitude to renationalizing the railways, which should be out on Friday 6th December.

And I've been a guest, as myself this time, on Out Of Character with Alex Lynch, all about sketch, sitcom and character comedy talking about some of the BBC Wales and S4C sketch shows I've worked on including Tourist Trap, O'r Diwedd, Pantheon Of Heroes as well as the recent Rik Mayall and Unfinished documentaries I made for BBC Radio 4.

And finally, on BBC Sounds right now, the fifth and final series of the all-female sketch show Welcome Strangers is currently available. I acted as script editor for the show which, this time, features guest narrators Dame Sian Phillips, Di Botcher, Katy Wix and Suzanne Packer.

I should write a proper post about this show at some point. We did five series of Welcome Strangers and, thinking back, I'm not sure any of them went according to plan. Across the run we've done audience, non-audience, remote and studio recordings - meaning the build-up to each series felt wildly different. I'm also 99% sure we broke the record for "shortest gap between two distinct radio series" with series 2 and 3 going out just a few weeks apart. Series 1-4 were narrated by the brilliant Ruth Madoc which makes it all the weirder that the reason I think we hold the record for shortest gap between radio series is that I know for a fact we are beat on on TV by Hi-de-Hi.