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Mark Watson
Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life

Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life

  • Radio stand-up
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2014 - 2023
  • 20 episodes (4 series)

Radio 4 series in which Mark Watson tackles the 'academic and abstract subjects that affect our everyday life'. Stars Mark Watson, Tim Key, Tom Basden, Sam Simmons, Will Adamsdale and more.

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Series 2, Episode 1 - Work And Play

Watson and his team consider work and play. How can we find the right balance between them? Do we get more out of life from flogging ourselves at the coalface, or messing about at the coalface, or do we not even have to go to the coalface at all?

Further details

Multi-award winning comedian and writer Mark Watson is back and talking about life in his new BBC Radio 4 Series Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life. Assisted and impeded in equal measure by henchmen Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale, he revives his quest to make some sort of sense of life, against the backdrop of a world that, in recent times, has come to seem even more peculiar than usual.

The tenacious trio take on some of human life's central topics - family, spirituality, Scandinavia. Watson peddles his unique, high-octane stand-up while Simmons and Adamsdale chip in with interjections which include (but are not limited to) music, shopping lists, life advice, stunts, avant-garde offerings and divvy interactions. Expect big laughs, controlled chaos and an attempt to answer the one question none of us can quite escape from - what exactly is going on?

The first episode broadcasts on Tuesday 23rd August and sees Watson and his team consider work and play. How can we find the right balance between them? Do we get more out of life from flogging ourselves at the coalface, or messing about at the coalface, or do we not even have to go to the coalface at all?

Broadcast details

Date
Tuesday 23rd August 2016
Time
6:30pm
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Mark Watson Host / Presenter
Sam Simmons Host / Presenter
Will Adamsdale Host / Presenter
Writing team
Mark Watson Writer
Will Adamsdale Writer
Sam Simmons Writer
Production team
Lianne Coop Producer

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