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Taking
a similar format to Chris Morris & Lee & Herring's radio shows
that were broadcast around the same times, Armando Iannucci was flanked
throughout these shows by Peter Baynham & David Schneider.
Also making appearances (with varying degrees of regularity) are Richard
Herring, Stewart Lee, Rebecca Front & Steve Coogan.
Iannucci's
considerable editing skills are given showcases with The Best Of....Simon
Bates' "Our Tune" while his imagination runs riot over
a number of subjects & phone in ideas.
Rich, Stew, Peter & the others contribute characters & seemingly
ad-libbed ideas througout the shows. Broadcast over two series (the
first consisting of two half-hour shows, and the second of four hour-long
outings) Iannucci's tenure of the airwaves was considerably shorter
than either Lee & Herring's or Morris's - but don't overlook these
wonderful shows, because - as Armando himself says - "Anything
you ever heard on radio one over the past five years is about to be
put through a blender & restitched together the wrong way round." |