Sunday Format
The Sunday Format, "BBC Radio 4's first high-quality weekend broadsheet newspaper", is a British satirical radio comedy. The programme is a parody of British middle class newspapers, in particular the lifestyle supplements and glossy celebrity magazines that fill Sunday papers. The programme is a series of short sketches which simply feature the cast reading the fictional newspaper, putting on accentss to convey the personality of the journalist or columnist. Passages are not always completed, or may be completed later in the show, as though the reader is not entirely interested and is flicking between articles. The show was first heard in 1996 in a one-off pilot episode. It did not return until a four part series in 1999, six episodes in 2004 and four part series in 2001 and 2004. The show has won a Sony Radio Award and British Comedy Award. The show was devised by John Morton and is produced by Helen Williams, the writing team is Simon Blackwell, Nick Revell, Dave Cohen, Ewan Bailey, Emma Kennedy, Bill Dare, Laurence Howarth, Andrew Marlatt and Tony Roche. The cast is Ewan Bailey, Rebecca Front, Simon Greenall, Emma Kennedy, Chris Langham and Tracy-Ann Oberman. Alexander Armstrong, Ben Miller and Siriol Jenkins were also in earlier series.
External links Sunday Format page on Radio 4 site H2G2: Sunday Format
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