Radio Times review

Alex Horne's bumbling jazz jesters are back for another series, and clearly have no shortage of ideas. This week they tackle turntables, mariachi music and the humble Teasmade, combining sharp stand-up comedy with even sharper musical chops.

There's also a wonderful guest appearance from Sara Pascoe, performing a self-penned five-minute musical about her life as a vegetarian. It's far funnier than it has any right to be. A few of the sight-gags fall flat (as visual comedy does on radio), but the raucous live atmosphere makes up for any shortcomings. After all, who doesn't want humour you can hum along to?

Life just keeps getting worse for Stuart (Mathew Horne). Since being fired from his position at the job centre when the series began, Stuart has found himself adrift. His friends seem to prefer the company of Janice, a drug-addled senile alcoholic and former "human guinea-pig". Worse still, his old job has been given to Gary Probert, a socially dysfunctional light-bulb fetishist who can't cross the road without supervision. From then on, things get weirder.

Horne does a sterling job of making Stuart likeable, despite his lack of any redeeming features. If you're a fan of Clare in the Community, you might well find a new favourite in Seekers. Dark, surreal and a more than a little cartoonish, it's likely to divide listeners, but this has the makings of a sure-fire cult hit.

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My Teenage Diary just keeps getting better. It's like a raunchier Desert Island Discs, and this week's diarist, Rachel Johnson, is marvellous. Her "gap yah" with brother Boris makes for essential listening, but don't expect adolescent angst.

Johnson is no Adrian Mole; her crisp, journalistic style was already perfected at the age of 18. When she does open up, the results are fascinating, whether she's worrying about her relationship with her father or just lusting after the locals while working in an Israeli valve factory ("Israeli soldiers," she informs us, "are really hunky").

Interestingly, before the broadcast Boris made Rachel promise to keep any stories about him "on brand". What we find out about the Mayor is entertaining enough but we can only imagine what those "off brand" anecdotes might be like.

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