15 Minute Musical
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2004 - 2019
- 57 episodes (8 series)
A Radio 4 show in which current affairs and celebrity stories told in musical form. Stars Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Melanie Hudson, Vicki Pepperdine, Jess Robinson and Pippa Evans
15 Minute Musical - A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series
Twenty brief, barbed and bittersweet musical comedies from eight series of the radio comedy series, co-written by and starring Richie Webb - all originally broadcast over Christmas, between 2012 and 2019.
Oozing with satire and sass, these fun-size yet deliciously satisfying musical comedies do for your ears what chocolate does for your taste buds. Based on the lives and careers of well-known public figures, each one takes a politician or VIP who has hit the headlines, and gives them a West End make-over. Their fabricated stories are told in an original, never-heard-before, musical that will have your toes tapping to the rhythm and shoulders shaking to the laughs.
All the conventions of a musical are followed (huge production numbers, tender ballads and emotional reprises) - but artistic licence is well and truly taken as celebrities such as David Cameron, Simon Cowell and Morrissey are hilariously lampooned in song. Hear the greatest stories never told (or sung) as Julian Assange is wiki-leaked; Nigel Farage goes to Europe with a Britpop soundtrack; and Barack Obama fights for the American presidency via power ballads and rock anthems. Plus, we go 'Upstairs Downton' with the Middletons; and pay homage to Russia's greatest love machine in an outrageously camp, disco-tastic look at Vladimir Putin...
Also featured are all eight Christmas specials from 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, including Jeremy Corbyn Superstar!, Lady And The Trump, Cabarexit, Eurovision Gone Wrong Contest and a Rodgers and Hammerstein-inspired celebration of all things Meghan Markle: The Sixth In Line To Be King And I.
Winner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Radio Comedy Award, this hugely entertaining series is written by Dave Cohen, David Quantick and Richie Webb, and stars Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Alex Tregear, Jess Robinson and Pippa Evans.
First released: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Distributor: BBC Digital Audio
- Minutes: 300
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