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Old Harry's Game. Image shows from L to R: Satan (Andy Hamilton), Gary (Steven O'Donnell). Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Old Harry's Game
Old Harry's Game. Image shows from L to R: Satan (Andy Hamilton), Gary (Steven O'Donnell). Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Old Harry's Game

The radio sitcom from Hell - literally. Written by and starring Andy Hamilton as the underworld-weary Satan

Genre:
Sitcom
Broadcast:
1995 - 2009  (BBC Radio 4)
Episodes:
42 (7 series)
Starring:
Andy Hamilton, James Grout, Jimmy Mulville, Steven O'Donnell, Robert Duncan, Annette Crosbie, Philip Pope, Michael Fenton Stevens, Felicity Montagu, David Swift, Nick Revell
Writers:
Andy Hamilton
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Life is not easy. Spending eternity in a place filled with fire and brimstone while the bottom half of you has been turned into a goat is even worse, but that is what Satan has to put up with.

Satan is somewhat world-weary (or rather underworld-weary), and spends most of his time torturing Thomas Quentin Crimp, the evilest human in the world, and trying to argue with the Professor, a kind human who was sent to Hell because he was an atheist. In Series 6, the Professor has gone to Heaven, so Satan spends most with his time with Edith, a historian who writes his biography, and who just happens to be Thomas' mother-in-law

Our Review: A not-surprisingly dark series with great moments of satire from the co-creator of Drop The Dead Donkey. One of the most successful radio sitcoms of all times, having now run for seven series, it has won a British Comedy Award and a Sony Award.