On The Hour
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SERIES ONE, SHOW ONE - BROADCAST 9th August 1991




Here at fistoffun.net, we're not going to house the downloads or episode guides for On The Hour, they've already been covered - and are available for download at Chris Morris fan site cookdandbombd.co.uk.
Cookdandbombd has been around for about four years now, and is - in part - responsible for this site, as inspiration for a site covering the work of Lee & Herring.

It's also an incredibly detailed & thorough fan site for the work of Chris Morris - the maverick DJ that was brought in by producer Armando Iannucci to front "On The Hour", after hearing his ridiculous yet plausible mock news stories on GLR.
You probably all know the story by know; Iannucci contacted Morris proposing that he put his input to "On The Hour". Morris would present, and also contributed a large percentage of the writing, along with the core writing team of Iannucci, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, (their subsequent "showbiz enemy") Patrick Marber, David Quantick, Steven Wells and Andrew Glover. Additional material was provided by the cast; Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Rebecca Front & Doon Makichan.

"On The Hour" won several awards - including the 1992 Writer's Guild award for Best Comedy. Twelve episodes were made between 1991 and 1992, as well as a short special for Radio 1. All episodes exist in the BBC's archives, and a compilation of two hours of material is available on a BBC Radio Collection cassette.
You can download great quality captures of the shows at www.cookdandbombd.co.uk.
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