The Odd Half Hour
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2008 - 2010
- 12 episodes (3 series)
Radio sketch show looking at modern life's pains. Stars include Stephen K Amos and Justin Edwards. Also features Jason Byrne, Katherine Parkinson, Kevin Bishop, Doon Mackichan and Jessica Ransom
Episode menu
Series 2, Episode 1
Sketches
Green Room chat: the credit crunch
Voluntary work with old racists
Marketing groceries
Depressing funeral
Pest Control for kids
Movie Trailer: Nothing
Open Mike Folk Song: Modern Banking Folk Song
Celebrity Magazine Editor has Angelina Jolie realisation
Independent Woman in Mid-30s: Train Ticket
Wikipediophiles
Re-naming Radio 4 as Melvin
After-show bath
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 5th August 2009
- Time
- 6:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Stephen K Amos | Various |
| Jason Byrne | Various |
| Justin Edwards | Various |
| Katherine Parkinson | Various |
| Jason Hazeley | Writer |
| Joel Morris | Writer |
| Simon Evans | Writer |
| Andrew Dawson (as The Dawson Bros) | Writer |
| Steve Dawson (as The Dawson Bros) | Writer |
| Tim Inman (as The Dawson Bros) | Writer |
| Madeleine Brettingham | Writer |
| Justin Edwards | Writer |
| Paul Jones | Writer |
| Simon Ounsworth | Writer |
| Stuart Beale | Writer |
| Alex Walsh-Taylor | Producer |
Press
New sketch show. First they talk about the Depression and what effects it's having everywhere, like this team having to share a dressing room with Front Row, with "Mark Lawson's clown suit" hanging over a chair. As the show progresses many idiocies are covered: bank rescue; rebranding; social work ("a lot of the elderly are quite racist," so recruits have to be trained in how to be racist without crossing the line into the "unacceptable"). An Englishman, an Irishman, a woman and a black man provide a curiously traditional comic cast line-up.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 5th August 2009