Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World
1960s sci-fi star Lionel Nimrod looks the world's unexplained things, with help from Lee & Herring
- Genre
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast
- 1992 - 1993
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 12 (2 series)
- Starring
- Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Tom Baker, Armando Iannucci and Rebecca Front
- Writers
- Stewart Lee and Richard Herring
- Producer
- Sarah Smith
Lionel Nimrod (Tom Baker), famed for his role as Mackay the Morloi in the cult 1960s sci-fi series Star Ark, narrates this "documentary" series examining parts of the universe that we have yet to fully explain, such as the mind, death, and the unexplained itself.
While Nimrod may be the narrator, most of the actual content of the show is presented by Stewart Lee and Richard Herring performing sketches and other comic routines around each week's theme.
- Production company
- Soundtrack
- Theme tune is Jerry Goldsmith's theme for Logan's Run.
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 8th October 1992 on BBC Radio 4 at 6:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Thursday 19th August 1993 on BBC Radio 4 at 6:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
- Last repeat
- Sunday 23rd May 2021 at 11:30pm on Radio 4 Extra