The Lawrence Sweeney Mix. Image shows from L to R: Jim Sweeney, Josie Lawrence
The Lawrence Sweeney Mix

The Lawrence Sweeney Mix

  • Radio sketch show
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2007 - 2008
  • 8 episodes (2 series)

Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney join together for an improvised sketch show for Radio 4. Stars Jim Sweeney and Josie Lawrence.

Press clippings

The only drawback to this second series of improvised comedy recorded in front of an audience is the same as the drawback to the first - you can't see Josie Lawrence. One supposes that there will be those similarly bereft at not having the full-on Jim Sweeney experience either.

That quibble aside, improv fans can tune in confident that the quality remains extremely high as the two riff off suggestions from the audience, adopting a variety of outrageous accents and doing their best to make the other corpse. Cheap entertainment at its finest - and no musical segments, either. Bonus.

Chris Campling, The Times, 29th January 2008

It takes a brave pair to do improv in front of a raucous crowd. But Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney have more than enough credentials, characters and convincing accents to calculate the risk in Radio 4's favour.

Georgie Hobbs, Such Small Portions, 27th February 2007

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