BBC Radio 4 Extra
Saturday 7th March, Week 10
Comedy Club: The Last Hurrah - Interview with the Snowman 1/2
11.30pm-Midnight
To mark the day that Rik Mayall would have celebrated his 57th birthday (born 7th March 1958/died 9th June 2014) Radio 4 Extra brings listeners the chance to hear Rik play his last great character: Elton the Snowman. This will be the first broadcast on national radio for the programmes.
Elton is the last remaining talking Snowman - a war-mongering, immortal, immoral tyrant. Duncan Pow is Ed Mullet, an eager young ghostwriter tasked with interviewing Elton for a forthcoming collection of memoirs. Elton invites Ed to The Last Hurrah, a notorious, near mythical, highly secret and highly disgusting gentlemen's club. As the sherry flows, Elton becomes increasingly inept at hiding his long life of crime.
Specially adapted for radio from the original series "The Last Hurrah," "The Last Hurrah, Interview with the Snowman" represents the late Rik Mayall at his anarchic best.
Part two follows on Saturday 14th March at 11.30pm.
Producer/Jay Auborn for Sweet Chuck Productions.
In this week, Radio 4 Extra also presents Rik Mayall’s Bedside Tales, Mon-Fri 9pm, and his starring role in the comedy play A Higher Education – Tuesday 10th March at 11.15am.
Monday 9th- Friday 13th March, Week 10
Rik Mayall’s Bedside Tales
21.00-21.15
A series by Rik Mayall and John Nicholson about the sometimes beautiful, sometimes bizarre oddities of human behaviour
The episodes include Mountain Girl, Train to Paris, The 22nd of May, Jimmy’s Bangkok Coffee and Red Coat.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2009.
Tuesday 10th March, Week 10
A Higher Education
11.15am- Noon (Rpt 21.15-22.00)
Rik Mayall stars in Lloyd Peters first play for Radio 4 – a comedy set in the drama department of a University. Co-starring Philip Glenister (Life on Mars) and Helen Lederer (Absolutely Fabulous).
What happens when you combine a drama lecturer locked in a studio with a shy student, a real gun and a copy of Hamlet? Add Black Forest gateau, a scheming dean, a drunken parent and the police, sprinkle liberally with sharp one-liners, slapstick and comic tension, and you have a combination guaranteed to ruin any head of department's day.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2000.
