Cabin Pressure
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2008 - 2014
- 27 episodes (4 series)
Radio sitcom based around a one-plane charter airline. No job is too small, but many jobs are too difficult for pilots Douglas and Martin. Stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Roger Allam, Stephanie Cole, John Finnemore and Anthony Head
Press clippings
Radio Times poll of best radio comedies
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British Comedy Guide, 17th November 2020Radio comedy reviews
New radio comedy is often disappointing. So welcome back Down The Line - the phone-in show with a twist. Also a look at Cabin Pressure which has started a repeat run, and comedy documentary What's Funny About...
Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 20th May 2020Cabin Pressure turns 10: the sitcom that broke records
It has won numerous awards, broken BBC Radio 4 records, launched the career of "a once in a generation writer" and spawned a devoted, international fan base with a particular enthusiasm for travelling lemons and otter storage dilemmas. It's the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure - which for 10 years has chronicled life at a tiny (fictional) charter airline. But it is also a programme that very nearly didn't get made.
Kate Whannel, BBC, 2nd July 2018How we made Cabin Pressure
'By the time we did the third series, Benedict Cumberbatch had starred in Sherlock. Suddenly the audiences were 90% young girls who'd queue round the block'
Imogen Tilden, The Guardian, 27th March 2018The 20 funniest radio comedies of all time
Before Radio 1's first run of new shows kicks off next month, here we count down the 20 greatest scripted radio comedies ever to hit the airwaves
Ben Lawrence, Tristram Fane Saunders & Mark Monahan, The Telegraph, 25th January 2018Benedict Cumberbatch wants to make Cabin Pressure Series 5
Benedict Cumberbatch has said he'd like to make more episode of the hit Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure.
British Comedy Guide, 30th July 2017John Finnemore talks about the final episode
Well, I'm glad you liked it! Glad, and very, very relieved.
John Finnemore, John Finnemore's Blog, 31st December 2014John Finnemore: Thank you for the thank yous!
Sorry if this is a rather self-indulgent post, but I really do have to thank the extraordinary and talented fans of Cabin Pressure for some of the astonishingly creative ways they've been saying thank you since the final recording.
John Finnemore, John Finnemore's Blog, 6th March 2014John Finnemore on the final Cabin Pressure
Well, that's it - as of last Sunday I am officially that guy who used to write Cabin Pressure.
John Finnemore, John Finnemore's Blog, 1st March 2014Benedict Cumberbatch records Cabin Pressure final
Benedict Cumberbatch delighted his fans with a "hilarious" radio performance that couldn't be further from his Sherlock role.
Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 24th February 2014