What's Funny About.... Image shows from L to R: Jon Plowman, Peter Fincham
What's Funny About...
- Radio documentary
- BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra
- 2020 - 2021
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the people behind Britain's biggest comedies.
What's Funny About.... Image shows from L to R: Jon Plowman, Peter Fincham
Key details
- Genre
- Documentary
- Broadcast
- 2020 - 2021
- Channels
- BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Episodes
- 12 (2 series)
- Features
- Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman
- Producer
- Owen Braben
- Companies
TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the writers, producers, and performers behind Britain's biggest TV comedy hits, and hear the inside story of how they brought their programmes to the screen.
With Peter and Jon as our guides, we'll take the opportunity to ask quite how people went about making a great bit of TV comedy? Who came up with it? How did it get written? We'll talk about the commissioning, the casting, and the reception the shows received when they first aired.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 13th May 2020 at 10:30pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Most recent repeats
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- Thursday 28th October 2021 at 10:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 6
- Thursday 21st October 2021 at 10:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 5
- Sunday 17th October 2021 at 3:00am on Radio 4 Extra - Series 2, Episode 4