Sneakiepeeks. Bill (Richard Lumsden). Copyright: BBC
Sneakiepeeks

Sneakiepeeks

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2009 - 2010
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. Stars Richard Lumsden, Daniel Kaluuya and Nina Conti.

Key details

Genre
Sitcom
Broadcast
2009 - 2010
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
6 (1 series)
Stars
Richard Lumsden, Daniel Kaluuya and Nina Conti
Writers
Harry Venning and Neil Brand
Producer
Katie Tyrrell
Company

The time, now - the place, outside your window. Three surveillance operatives are on an unspecified job, working for an unspecified employer. Together, they are Beagle Team.

Good surveillance operatives have patience, alertness and discretion - this is a series about the other type of surveillance operative.

Bill, career snoop and technical specialist, has long carried a torch for beautiful yet disconnected fieldworker Sharla, who doesn't know he exists, despite sharing the back of a van with him for most of their working life. Mark, an enthusiastic, wily, slightly criminal trainee, has been assigned to them by their unknown employer, who goes by the codename of "Huntsman".

Each episode introduces fresh targets, situations and locations. The objects of the team's surveillance are guaranteed to stretch their improvisational skills. However, the team still finds time to indulge in the usual round of office politics; bitching, backstabbing and scapegoating, usually directed at whichever member is out in the field with the microphones.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 8th December 2009 at 6:30pm on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats
  • Tuesday 19th March 2024 at 4:30am on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 6
  • Monday 18th March 2024 at 7:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 6
  • Monday 18th March 2024 at 2:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 6

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