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From assembly instructions to a meeting with Mozart – an all-star cast with a comic take on life. Stars Stephen Fry. From 2018.

An astonishing tour de force of comic imagination and satire.

Martin Jarvis directs Michael Frayn’s masterly comic series.

Featuring an outstanding cast led by Ian McKellen, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry, Alfred Molina, Alex Jennings and Jarvis himself.

Michael Frayn - author of Noises Off - is the most comic philosophical writer of our time.

Each episode reveals his infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction, TV and the media, the church, relationships - life in general.

* Joanna Lumley opens the series with "assembly instructions"

* Alex Jennings is a subversive theatre director

* Ian McKellen meets Mozart (George Blagden)

* Alfred Molina has security problems with packaging

* Lisa Dillon and Edward Bennett are Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews National Gallery portrait

* Stephen Fry conducts a weird press interview with Martin Jarvis

* Ian McKellen and Joanna Lumley are Mr and Mrs God.

Director: Martin Jarvis

A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2018.

28 minutes

Last on

Tue 9 Sep 202503:00

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Credits

RoleContributor
ActorJoanna Lumley
ActorIan McKellen
ActorAlex Jennings
ActorAlfred Molina
ActorLisa Dillon
ActorEdward Bennett
ActorStephen Fry
ActorMartin Jarvis
WriterMichael Frayn
DirectorMartin Jarvis

Broadcasts

  • Fri 1 Jun 201811:30
  • Tue 26 Nov 201923:00
  • Wed 11 Nov 202007:00
  • Wed 11 Nov 202017:00
  • Thu 12 Nov 202005:00
  • Sat 14 Nov 202012:00
  • Wed 3 Aug 202207:00
  • Wed 3 Aug 202217:00
  • Thu 4 Aug 202205:00
  • Sat 6 Aug 202212:30
  • Mon 8 Sep 202508:00
  • Mon 8 Sep 202513:00
  • Mon 8 Sep 202519:00
  • Tue 9 Sep 202503:00