Image shows from L to R: Anna Leong Brophy, Emily Lloyd Saini
Scrambled EGG

Scrambled EGG

  • Radio sketch show
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2021
  • 1 episode

Sketch show from double act Egg about being mixed-race. Stars Rebecca Boey, Anna Leong Brophy and Emily Lloyd-Saini.

Key details

Genre
Sketch Show
Broadcast
2021
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Stars
Rebecca Boey, Anna Leong Brophy and Emily Lloyd-Saini
Writers
Anna Leong Brophy and Emily Lloyd-Saini
Producer
Mobashir Dar
Company

Comedy duo Egg - Anna Leong Brophy and Emily Lloyd-Saini - write and star in this brand-new comedy special, exploring what it means to be mixed race, and their very different experiences growing up in the UK.

An increasingly surreal dinner date turns into a trip down memory lane for the pair, as a curt waitress guides them grudgingly through some of their formative mixed-race memories.

Through break-out sketches, the duo narrowly avoid coming to blows with streetwise teenage schoolgirls Jacanda and Malika on the streets of north west London, culturally appropriate their own cultural heritage in a Portakabin in Nottingham, and befuddle renowned Race and Socio-Political expert Professor Jojo Mojojo with a simple question. All the while waiting for their main course to arrive.

Anna and Emily also talk to their real-life Mums, who share their experiences on what it meant to bring up a mixed race daughter in the 90s - and whether the girls really were the charming little angels they claim to have been.

Can the mixed-race experience really be defined in a single comedy special? The Egg girls aren't sure, but they take a crack at it in Scrambled EGG.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 8th August 2021 at 7:15pm on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
30 minutes
Most recent repeats
  • Saturday 14th August 2021 at 5:30am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode
  • Friday 13th August 2021 at 10:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode
  • Friday 13th August 2021 at 5:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode

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