Peacefully in their Sleeps
- Peacefully in their Sleeps
Infobox Radio Show
show_name = Peacefully in Their Sleeps
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format = Comedy
runtime = 30 mins
country = United Kingdom
language = English
home_station = BBC Radio 4
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starring = Geoff McGivern
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writer = Chris Chantler and Howard Read
producer = Colin Anderson
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first_aired = 8 August 2007
last_aired = 12 September 2007
num_series = 1
num_episodes = 6
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website = [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/peacefullyintheirsleeps/pip/knbq2 Website at BBC Radio 4]
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"Peacefully in Their Sleeps" is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series written by Chris Chantler and Howard Read. Paying tribute to fictional celebrities, it lampoons postwar popular culture using fake archive footage and interviews. Six episodes were produced, and aired from July until September 2007.
Each episode memorialises a different fictional celebrity, with guest stars including Marcus Brigstocke, Elizabeth Spriggs, Richard Briers, Jeffrey Holland, Paul Putner, Phyllida Law and Dan Antopolski. Geoff McGivern plays the programme's presenter Roydon Postlethwaite.
External links
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,2143672,00.html Guardian cites show as 'Pick of the Day']
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/08/08/nosplit/bvtv08.xml Telegraph]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2215714.ece Times]
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