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Shappi Talk. Image of Shappi Khorsandi. Image credit: Open Mike Productions.

Shappi Talk

A Radio 4 comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi explores what it is like being brought up in the UK within a non-British family

Genre:
Stand-Up
Broadcast:
2009  (BBC Radio 4)
Episodes:
4 (1 series)
Starring:
Shappi Khorsandi, Hils Barker
Writers:
Shappi Khorsandi, Hils Barker, Christian Reilly, Pavan Khorsandi
Production:
Open Mike Productions

Iranian Shappi Khorsandi, together with guests, discusses what it was like being brought up in the UK within a non-British family.

The series looks at four different aspects of Shappi's life - unconventional parents, religion, growing up and, in the opener, racism.

Each week, Shappi also talks to a guest "on location", who has experiences in the topic of discussion. Shappi also interacts with the audience, who share some of their experiences of each week's subject.

Guests appearing in the series include John Gordillo, who was brought up in an unconventional Italian family; Stewart Francis, who was brought up in Canada; and Paul Sinha, who was brought up in a strong Bengali family. Shappi also chats to Lenny Henry, Ken Livingstone and Ben Okri.

Our Review: A fairly amusing series - but sadly there was very little in the way of new content for those that had already seen/heard Khorsandi and her guests delivering their stand-up routines on other comedy shows.

Punctuating the stand-up with interviews from the likes of Ken Livingstone and Ben Okri was a bad decision - the serious tone of these inserts ruined the pace and fun atmosphere the show had been building up.