Gus Beattie
- Actor and producer
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Athena Kugblenu creates Radio 4 series about cancel culture
Athena Kugblenu has landed a Radio 4 series on cancel culture. A four-part stand-up and sketch show, Athena's Cancel Culture, will be broadcast in April.
British Comedy Guide, 17th March 2021New comedy coming to Scotland's Central FM
Central FM, a radio station operating in Scotland's Forth Valley, is to launch a new comedy series called The Central FM Comedy Hour.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd October 2019Radio 4 comedies nominated in BBC Audio Awards 2019
A number of Radio 4 comedy series have been nominated in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2019.
British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2018Hardeep Singh Kohli to host multicultural Radio 4 sketch show
Hardeep Singh Kohli is to front Sketchtopia, a new sketch comedy show on Radio 4 which takes a satirical look at issues around multiculturalism in the UK.
British Comedy Guide, 29th January 2018Radio comedies shortlisted for BBC Audio Awards 2018
Liam Williams, The Penny Dreadfuls, Sarah Kendall, The Absolutely Radio Show, Harry And Paul Present and It's Jocelyn are amongst the shortlisted nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 4th January 2018Gus Beattie interview
We spoke with the award-winning producer Gus Beattie to find out more about his comedy secrets...
Why Did The Chicken?, 26th November 2017Radio comedies up for BBC Audio Awards 2018
Shows starring Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, John Finnemore, Marcus Brigstocke, David Jason and Jocelyn Jee Esien are amongst the nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2018.
British Comedy Guide, 21st November 2017Fags, Mags & Bags to return for Series 7
Radio 4 corner shop set sitcom Fags, Mags & Bags is to return for a seventh series. Four new episodes are being made, for broadcast in August.
British Comedy Guide, 9th June 2017Absolutely returns to Radio 4
Sketch team Absolutely are due to return to Radio 4 for a second series of The Absolutely Radio Show.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd February 2017Mordrin McDonald: 21st-Century Wizard (Radio 4, Wednesdays) is proof that, somewhere beyond the usual shouting and swearing, real comedy still exists. It's written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, stars Gordon Kennedy (as Mordrin) and Jack Docherty (as fellow wizard Bernard the Blue) and concerns a 2,000-year-old being who fights evil whenever he isn't jam-making or chatting to the neighbours. He is a Scot and lives in Scotland which imbues in him a world view like those of the great Chic Murray or the marvellous Arnold Brown, tending to the school of rueful reflection and deflation of expectation. Asked if wizards can sense each others' presence he replies, "No, I just look out the window." He knows how to disarm a dragon and what to do when the binmen don't arrive. Every urban village needs a Mordrin. I hope this one stays longer on Radio 4 than his four allotted episodes. His chances of doing so are enhanced by good casting and strong production (by Gus Beattie, for independents The Comedy Unit).
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 8th February 2010