
- Genre
- Stand-Up
- Broadcast
- 2017
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 1
- Star
- Mark Steel
- Writer
- Mark Steel
- Producer
- Carl Cooper
The star of the award winning Mark Steel's In Town brings his critically acclaimed stand-up show to Radio 4.
"I've always known I was adopted, even before I knew where babies who weren't adopted came from."
Who Do I Think I Am? is a surprising, moving and incredibly funny story about what Mark discovered in his half-hearted attempt to navigate the red tape required to track down his birth mother.
"It never really bothered me that I'd never met my mum. It never occurred to me I needed to meet her to 'find out who I was', as it didn't seem likely I'd discover I was someone different to who I thought I was. Could it turn out I was three stone lighter than I thought, or I spoke Italian or supported Arsenal or had a fear of Liquorice Allsorts? But after the birth of my own son, I realised it's quite an event to have a child, and she may well remember giving birth to me, and maybe even the adoption..."
- Production company
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 16th February 2017 on BBC Radio 4 at 11pm
- Episode length
- 1 hour
- Last repeat
- Saturday 27th July 2019 at 11:00pm on Radio 4 Extra

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