Too Much Information
Radio sitcom about a Tourist Information Centre in Waft, a town with no tourist attractions whatsoever
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 2009
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 4 (1 series)
- Starring
- Jeff Rawle, Malcolm Tierney, Paul Barnhill, Liza Sadovy and Joannah Tincey
- Writer
- Neil Warhurst
- Producer
- Liz Webb
The ancient northern town of Waft appears in the Doomsday Book: "1 cow, diseased. Don't bother" and more recently in the Lonely Planet Guide: "Don't bother". It's twinned with a town near Chernobyl and is the perfect place to stop off on the way to Alton Towers to ask the way to Alton Towers - or to just use the toilet.
Tourist Information Centre Manager Warren, a passionate local history nut, is so sick of people just stopping off to spend a penny that he's taking a Zero Tolerance approach to visitors with his new leaflet "Enjoy the fascinating local area, or get lost". So tourists are somewhat rare. But local aristocrat on his uppers, Douglas Waft is desperate to swell numbers by any means - opening the Sylvia Plath Guesthouse and Beatrix Potter Tearooms even though neither ever set foot in Waft.
Warren is horrified at Douglas's distortions of Waft history and hopes that his new highly qualified Tourism Assistant Lucy will draw the crowds honestly. But city-girl Lucy has only taken the job for a quiet life after a breakdown, and is now caught in the crossfire of Warren's stultifying facts and Douglas's outrageous fictions!
- Production company
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 6th October 2009 on BBC Radio 4 at 6:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Tuesday 3rd November 2009 on BBC Radio 4 at 6:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
- Last repeat
- Friday 15th November 2019 at 5:00am on Radio 4 Extra

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