Scroungers

Available for 46 days

Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew takes you on an autobiographical journey through the benefits system. It's a stand-up series taking a wry sideways look at the prejudices that people have towards benefits claimants and turns those assumptions on their heads. Tom looks at the benefits system and asks if it actually works. Tom is a critically acclaimed comedian, whose material about being working-class – mixing the personal and the political, with the punchline-rate of a one-liner comic – sets him apart from any other act on the circuit. Tom Mayhew is Benefit Scum is an audio adaptation of Mayhew's acclaimed Edinburgh show I, Tom Mayhew. Producer: Benjamin Sutton A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2021.