For this audience-free series, each episode is made up of scenes from one person's life, played in reverse order. Episode one is all about Russ (
Lawry Lewin), and takes place between a Christmas day Zoom in
2020, and a funeral he attended as a six-year-old in
1986.
The ninth series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is very different to the previous eight. It's still written by John Finnemore, and performed by him, with a great supporting cast of Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan, and there are still sketches and songs. But, with no live studio audience this year, John has taken the opportunity to try something completely new.
Every episode in this series of Souvenir Programme is made up of scenes from one person's life, played in reverse order. There's no narrative to the episode, it's still a sketch show, not a sitcom... but the sketches in each episode all happened to one person, played by one member of the cast, over the course of their lifetime.
