I keep turning up gems I'd never heard before on R4 Extra. At Home With The Snails is - or was - a wonderfully black portrait of a dysfunctional family with Geoffrey Palmer in full perverse flight. Written by and featuring Gerard Foster, it deserved more than the 2x4 it got.

In case you missed it on Thursday night, here's the link for "Ian D Montfort Is: Unbelievable".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ks6gt

If you listen to the credits at the end you might hear a familiar name...

That is unavailable, but this isn't http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qj7q2

Is it the same episode?

Quote: Nil Putters @ February 10 2013, 12:38 PM GMT

That is unavailable, but this isn't http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qj7q2

Is it the same episode?

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Erm... yes it is (and I'm an idiot).

Thank you.

No problem.

He even writes the links! Ahahaha!

Dan

As I'm not a big Sword and Scorcery fan so perhaps most of the jokes on Elvenquest are going over my head.

Or is it just a monumentally feeble piece of comedy?

Speaking as someone who is not entirely adverse to a spot of sword and sorcery, I would go with option b).

Jigsaw. Funny and clever.

Quote: youngian @ February 26 2013, 6:55 PM GMT

As I'm not a big Sword and Scorcery fan so perhaps most of the jokes on Elvenquest are going over my head.

Or is it just a monumentally feeble piece of comedy?

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It has its moments but it's derivative and the gags are bleedingly obvious, Stephen Mangan's in particular. Mangan is utterly wasted in the show.

Quote: italophile @ February 27 2013, 10:35 AM GMT

It has its moments but it's derivative.

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Of Pratchett, I guess?

Yes, Pratchett, but also the general school of stuffing anachronisms into a period setting. The Castle is the worst offender.

I listened to 'What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else' with Andrew Lawrence yesterday. Very funny, only 15 minutes long but worth catching.

Tonights new Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation was brill

No surprises there then

Caught up with it last night. A patchy, laboured opening, I thought, but once it got going it was good stuff.