Broken Arts. Image of David Quantick. Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Broken Arts

A fast-paced audience show which laughs at everything ridiculous in popular culture, hosted by David Quantick

Genre:
Sketch Show
Broadcast:
2009  (BBC Radio 4)
Episodes:
6 (1 series)
Starring:
David Quantick, Daniel Maier, Richie Webb, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Jane Lamacraft, John Davis
Writers:
David Quantick, Daniel Maier, Jane Lamacraft, Richie Webb, Joel Morris, Holly Walsh, Jon Hunter, Jason Hazeley, James Sherwood
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Broken Arts is a fast-paced audience show which laughs at everything ridiculous in popular culture.

Hosted by David Quantick and written by Quantick with his TV Burp co-writer Daniel Maier, this show is for culture novices as well as cultural know-it-alls. Songs, sketches, poems, reviews and interviews will provide a lively sound, with David steering the show.

The show includes some recurring characters such from the world of arts, such as Prof. Umberto Eco, and Gilbert and Sullivan.

Our Review: Passable... but not great - there was too much average filler. The general consensus from the members of this website is that this show was not satirical enough, nor did it focus enough on the cultural issues that were actually happening at the time of broadcast.

Each episode did have one or two gems. In episode six, 'Alan Bennett' presented a series of monologues about taking drugs and going to a rave with his mother. That was very funny. And the Gilbert and Sullivan sketches were one of the other highlights - however, as they were all based on the same joke (Gilbert's obsession with making everything topsy-turvy), even they wore a bit thin by the end. Shame the musical duo didn't make a topsy-turvy version of Broken Arts, as that would no doubt have enhanced our enjoyment of this show.