- The Sunday Format
The Sunday Format, "
BBC Radio 4 's first high-quality weekendbroadsheet newspaper ", is a British satiricalradio comedy . The programme is aparody of Britishmiddle class newspapers, in particular the lifestyle supplements and glossy celebrity magazines that fill Sunday papers. The programme is a series of short sketches that dramatise the articles in the eponymous newspaper, with the cast assuming accents to convey the characters of thejournalist orcolumnist . The articles are presented in the format of a British Sunday newspaper, with the copy distributed in columns across the body of the paper, and commonly feature lists of items or instructions. Sketches are broken up, and often use backing music which also stops and starts along with the reading of the column. This leads to a surreal, Dadaist juxtaposition of sketches, with jokes being set up at the beginning of the episode and the punchline being delivered at a random point before the end.The show was first heard in 1996 in a one-off pilot episode. It did not return until a four part series in Feb/Mar 1999, six episodes in Nov/Dec 2000 and four part series in Sep/Oct 2001, Jan 2003 and Jan/Feb 2004. The show has won a
Sony Radio Award andBritish Comedy Award .The show was devised by John Morton and is produced by
Helen Williams , the writing team isSimon Blackwell ,Nick Revell ,Dave Cohen ,Ewan Bailey ,Emma Kennedy ,Bill Dare ,Laurence Howarth ,Andrew Marlatt and Tony Roche. The cast isEwan Bailey ,Rebecca Front ,Simon Greenall , Emma Kennedy,Chris Langham andTracy-Ann Oberman . Alexander Armstrong,Ben Miller andSiriol Jenkins were also in earlier series.ee also
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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/sundayformat.shtml Sunday Format page on Radio 4 site]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A242515 h2g2: Sunday Format]
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