Andrew Palmer

Oh dear, oh dear. Take Me To Your Reader (Radio 4, Saturday and Monday) is in the true, unhappy line of Radio 4 sitcom and enough to make you hurl your radio into the nearest litter-bin. Set in a publisher's office (a risible place, no doubt, but not here) with a cast struggling with unfunny jokes, weak stories, over-emphatic production and studio audiences apparently cast into whoops of appreciative merriment at lines that flop like wet wool.

The writer is Andrew Palmer and the producer is Edward Taylor, who produced The Men from the Ministry, and the two programmes sound like first cousins. You can make men at play sound light-hearted, but men at work are a lot funnier.