I've Never Seen Star Wars
Radio series in which Marcus Brigstocke cajoles guests into doing some very everyday things for the first time
Broadcast:
2008 - 2010 (BBC Radio 4)
Starring:
Marcus Brigstocke
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
I've Never Seen Star Wars is a Radio 4 entertainment series in which Marcus Brigstocke asks his guests to embrace ordinary activities and experiences that they've perhaps always meant to try but haven't had the time, the courage or possibly the inclination.
The challenges that the guests have so far included drinking absinthe (Phill Jupitus); buying a pornographic magazine from a shop (Tim Brook Taylor); constructing some flat-pack furniture (Mark Steel) and swimming (Paul Daniels).
In the new 3rd series Jon Culshaw has his first salad and listens to Woman's Hour; Sanjeev Baskar reads PG Wodehouse and plays Subbuteo; Jenny Eclair listens to Charlie Parker and has a bikini wax; Kate Adie watches The Sopranos and goes to bingo; John Lloyd does his first stand-up gig and watches The Wire; and Ardal O'Hanlon takes herbal remedies and tries Twitter.
Our Review: An entertaining enough comedy format - but one that is much better suited for TV: listening to Paul Daniels floundering in a swimming pool isn't the same as being able to see him sinking... although, perhaps seeing Phill Jupitus undergoing a colonic irrigation would have been a bit much visually!
Of course, I've Never Seen Star Wars has actually indeed now transferred to TV. An eight part series was broadcast on BBC Four in the Spring of 2009. Ironically the TV version decided to concentrate on many sitting-down activities... so it turns out we were wrong about it being better on telly!
This radio version continues - five episodes of a six-part series have now broadcast (where the final sixth one has gone we're not entirely sure - it seems to have been lost in the BBC vaults as has yet to be broadcast).
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