Mark Watson, Tim Key and Tom Basden reunite for Radio 4 series

Monday 11th August 2014, 11:17am

Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life. Image shows from L to R: Mark Watson, Tim Key, Tom Basden. Copyright: Impatient Productions

Radio 4 have commissioned a new series starring Mark Watson, Tim Key and Tom Basden.

Mark Watson Wants To Briefly Talk To You About The Point Of Life follows on from the previous two radio formats the trio have been involved in, Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better and Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation.

The Producers explain: "Previous series have seen Mark and his two deputies eradicate the seven deadly sins, promote virtue throughout the world, and broadcast live to the nation allowing the audience to guide Mark's attempts to make the world a better place.

"This new series will see Mark tackle the bigger, more academic and abstract subjects that affect our everyday life, asking big questions that are crucial to our understanding of ourselves and the crazy world around us. Mark and his two henchmen will launch themselves at themes from every angle, tear them apart, laugh at them and put them back together again; making everyone's lives a teeny bit better using stand-up, poetry, songs and divvy interactions."

The series, which is due on air later this year, will be recorded in front of a live audience at the Up The Creek comedy club in Greenwich in September. To apply to be in the audience see our free tickets page

Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better launched in 2007, a year after Watson won a prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award (the If.Comedy Panel Prize in 2006). A second series followed in 2008, with the trio then undertaking the ambitious Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation in 2011.

Tom Basden won the Best Newcomer Award in Edinburgh in 2007, whilst Tim Key won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2009.

Watson is currently at the Edinburgh Festival performing his new show Flaws, with Tim Key also at the festival from Wednesday to perform a two week run of his critically-acclaimed show Single White Slut.

Meanwhile, Tom Basden's play Holes has just finished a London run. Plebs, the sitcom he co-writes, is due to return to ITV2 next month, and he is also involved in writing the next series of The Wrong Mans. A TV pilot of Party, his hit Radio 4 sitcom, was filmed earlier this year.

Below is a video clip from the last recording of Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation as the comedians prepare for the start of the show:

View this clip on the BBC website

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