The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
- Radio comedy drama
- BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 7
- 2008 - 2020
- 18 episodes (2 series)
Radio comedies in which sketch group The Penny Dreadfuls - aka Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck - present plays around historical subjects. Also features Ingrid Oliver and Miles Jupp.
The Penny Dreadfuls - Volume 3: Le Carré On Spying | Don Quixote | Hadrian's Beard
In these riotous revisionist plays, The Penny Dreadfuls present alternative takes on three icons, ably assisted by guests including Miles Jupp, Mark Heap, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Amanda Abbington and Sylvester McCoy.
In The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Le Carré On Spying, we follow David Cornwell's (Le Carré's real name) desperate efforts to uncover the latest mole in the secret service. John F Kennedy's official visit to Berlin looms and the pressure is on to get to the truth.
In The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Don Quixote, Cervantes' mighty tome has been condensed into an hour's entertainment. Join peasant Sancho and the man who thinks he's a knight, locked in a quest to save those who don't want saving and unravel enchantments which may or may not only exist in their minds.
In The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Hadrian's Beard, Emperor Hadrian's instinct is to protect himself and Rome with a wall, but will the locals fall into line?
First released: Thursday 17th October 2019
- Distributor: BBC Digital Audio
- Minutes: 180
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