The End of the Road Show

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The End of the Road Show
GenreComedy
Running time30 minutes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
StarringNick Hancock
Neil Mullarkey
Tony Hawks
Rebecca Front
Regina Freedman
Written byStewart Lee
Richard Herring[1]
Armando Iannucci (script editor)[2][3]
Produced bySarah Smith
WebsiteThe End of the Road Show

The End of the Road Show was a 1991-2 UK radio comedy series, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.[4]

The programme's comedian presenters would visit a different university town or city[5] in the UK in each edition. The running joke was that the presenters were trying to entice young people away from BBC Radio One, a pop music station, to Radio Four, a conservative speech-based station. The title of the programme was derived from the Radio 1 Roadshow (in which the station's disc jockeys would tour Britain's seaside resorts each summer, presenting from a different town each day). The show, very much tongue-in-cheek, claimed that The End of the Road Show was "just like the Radio One roadshow. Except indoors, in the middle of winter, and with everyone sitting in rows".

The programme featured contemporary Radio One jingles, but with the sung word "one" in the original jingle replaced by a Radio Four continuity announcer speaking the word "four".

Episodes[edit]

This table has the episodes of The End of the Road Show listed in it
No.Recording locationOriginal air date
1Newcastle Polytechnic28 December 1991 (1991-12-28)[6]
2Edinburgh4 January 1992 (1992-01-04)[7]
3Bristol11 January 1992 (1992-01-11)[8]
4Oxford18 January 1992 (1992-01-18)[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The End Of The Roadshow". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  2. ^ Worthington, Time. "Come With Me Now, Into The Swirling Mists Of Human Inadequacy…". Tim Worthington's Newsround. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  3. ^ Herring, Richard. "The Comedy Club Interview". Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  4. ^ "BBC Genome search for The End of the Road Show". BBC. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  5. ^ "The End Of The Roadshow". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  6. ^ "BBC Genome: The End of the Road Show". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  7. ^ "BBC Genome: The End of the Road Show". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  8. ^ "BBC Genome: The End of the Road Show". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  9. ^ "BBC Genome: The End of the Road Show". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
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