Series 2
1. The Rotters's Club
First broadcast: Monday 20th August 2001
Crawford Logan reads an episode from Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club, in which a schoolboy forgets his trunks and has to face the embarrassment of swimming without them.
2. The Ex-magician From The Minhota Tavern
First broadcast: Tuesday 21st August 2001
Steven McNicoll reads Murilo Rubaio's The Ex-Magician from the Minhota Tavern. When a man can't stop producing lions, snakes and free lunches from thin air, what can he do?
3. Ted Hughes And The Fancy Rabbit
First broadcast: Wednesday 22nd August 2001
Vivienne Dixon reads Patricia Hannah's story Ted Hughes and the Fancy Rabbit. A pet goes missing during a poetry reading - just as the buffet serves rabbit tartlets.
4. Footnotes: Peterhead, Winter 1963
First broadcast: Thursday 23rd August 2001
Michael Mackenzie reads Footnotes: Peterhead, Winter 1963 by Iain Grant. A critic's comments on a great Scottish poem reveal the poet's disastrous home life as a drunken misogynist.
Buy Series 2
Comic Fringes - The Complete Series 2 Download
Release date: Thursday 1st March 2012
Note: these episodes correspond to Series 6 of the radio show.
Three more short stories which capture the atmosphere of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Recorded live at The Pleasance, leading comedians perform their own work in front of a packed audience.
The Woman Who Sniffed, written and read by Susan...