The Greatest Ever Faker is all about Iolo Morganwg - Iolo was a 18th century writer, poet and literary forger (and a good one, too). In the programme we cover Iolo's forgeries and the whole sticky world of making-stuff-up as we speak to poets, historians, broadcasters, a convicted art forger and someone who writes biopics for BBC Four. It also has the greatest iPlayer photo of all time (featuring me and Joseph Rosenblum). The show is transmitted on Monday 7th March at 4pm on BBC Radio 4 and will be on iPlayer forever. So, y'know, plenty of time to catch up. The fact BBC Radio 4 documentaries stay up indefinitely is handy if you enjoy this and want to catch the other two shows I've made for the station: Gareth Gwynn's Little Book Of Welsh Independence and Gareth Gwynn's Little Book Of Welsh Rock. Also being broadcast this week is a television show I had a small hand in - Jonathan's Six Nations Quiz is on BBC One Wales at 9pm on Wednesday 9th March. And while I'm doing this update, there are actually quite a few things I've worked on on iPlayer (or similar) right now:
The Now Show - I wrote on the first episode of the new series. Bull - All three episodes of the GOLD sitcom which I co-wrote with John-Luke Roberts are available on NOW TV. Click on it and just look who is in the cast. It's crazy. Ankle Tag - Co-written with Benjamin Partridge and starring Elis James, Katy Wix and Phillip Fox - This was a one-off for BBC Radio 2, but which has just been repeated on BBC Radio Wales, so it's back online. Join-in with the hashtag #hotpig. And my regular BBC Radio Wales show is on Sundays at 4-6pm, with the most recent episodes available to listen to on BBC iPlayer Radio. This Sunday (6th March) I'll be speaking to actor, stand-up comedian and News Quiz host Miles Jupp. Because that's what Mother's Day is all about.
As part of BBC Wales' "How Wales Works" season, I was asked to prepare a bunch of radio packages all about the Welsh Assembly and how it functions. As well as appearing on-air, they've also been animated by Sharif Shawan, and the first one is out today.
There are going to be six altogether and, one by one, they'll appear on this page. Once they're all up, I can recommend a fun game of trying to spot the places where I've said something that was factually incorrect during the recording, and have then had to fix during the edit.
While you're on the BBC Radio Wales website, do check out the most recent edition of my brand-new Sunday Afternoon Show (and for a very limited period, there are the final episodes of my Sunday morning show there too, so you can compare-and-contrast how exhausted I used to sound). Plus, for a limited time, you can catch series two of our award-winning sketch show Here Be Dragons. Right now, I'm working on The News Quiz with Miles Jupp and hoping that the Welsh Assembly do something that we can base a question on. After all, I've done all the research.
On Sunday GOLD repeated all 3 episodes of Bull in a row (so to anyone just catching it for the first time, it probably felt more like a film with a constantly changing plot).
This means that the show is now available to watch on Sky Go and Now TV. Just follow the links for more details.
Bull is written by myself and John-Luke Roberts and stars Robert Lindsay, Maureen Lipman, Naz Osmanoglu and Claudia Jessie and also features Matt Lucas, Kevin Eldon, Brett Domino, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Pam St Clement (she's meant to be swearing, but they snipped that out for pre-watershed. Don't know how Now TV will deal with that!)
Do watch if you haven't seen it before (or, indeed, if you have. It all helps the figures).And if you don't have access to Sky Go or Now TV and there is absolutely no way for you to see it, here is a screen grab of the single most important moment...
From the 31st January, my BBC Radio Wales Sunday Show will move from early mornings to the much more civilized time of 4-6pm. At the moment, the show is made up of music, requests and things which I put together at 4am (examples of which are both here and below), so it'll be fun to see what stands-up in the cold light of day.
To help with the transition, I'll also be standing in for Rhod Gilbert on Saturday 16th from 11am-1pm, so it'll at least give me an hour of practicing saying "Good Afternoon" instead of "Good Morning". (Anyone who has heard me stand-in for Rhod in the past will know how much I struggle with this).
And while you're on the BBC Radio Wales website, the station are currently repeating the second series of our award winning sketch show Here Be Dragons, so do be sure to check that out too. There are already two episodes online, and each one will stay on BBC Radio iPlayer for a month. Aside from that, I'll be writing on a couple of episodes of the new series of The News Quiz with Miles Jupp and getting my head around having a proper nights sleep on a Saturday night for the first time in absolutely ages.
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.
I've just finished work on a brand-new documentary for BBC Radio 4, written and presented by myself and produced by Michael Surcombe.
The show is transmitted on Monday 7th March at 4pm on BBC Radio 4 and will be on iPlayer forever. So, y'know, plenty of time to catch up. 
The Now Show - I wrote on the first episode of the new series.
