Linda Smith's A Brief History Of Timewasting
Linda Smith wrote and starred in this Radio 4 sitcom, playing a version of herself living in East London and struggling with the minutiae of life
- Genres
- Sketch Show, Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2001 - 2002
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 12 (2 series)
- Starring
- Linda Smith, Margaret John, Femi Elufowoju Jr, Chris Neill, Jeremy Hardy and Martin Hyder
- Writer
- Linda Smith
- Producers
- Lucy Armitage and Jon Rolph
In this sitcom, Linda Smith plays a version of herself living in her East London house, dealing with the chaos caused by her inept live-in builder Chris, the demands of her morbid elderly neighbour Betty, and Wara, the enthusiastic Nigerian minicab driver.
Linda's trademark cynical and surreal observations on life run through this show, which ran for two series in 2001 and 2002. After her death in 2004, Jeremy Hardy revealed that Linda had been working on a third series.
- Production company
- Also known as
- A Brief History Of Timewasting
- Soundtrack
- The theme music is Flowers on the Wall by The Statler Brothers
- Laugh track
- Recorded at screening
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 19th July 2001 on BBC Radio 4 at 6:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Tuesday 9th July 2002 on BBC Radio 4 at 6:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
- Last repeat
- Saturday 10th October 2020 at 10:45pm on Radio 4 Extra
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