Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.

My name is Keir Milben and today I'm joined by Nadia Eidl.

Hello Jeremy Gilbert, hello and today we're talking about comedy or sitcoms about work.

This is a spin-off of our main episode we did, our full trip on comedy and we thought

it might be interesting to talk about different sitcoms that have been based in a workplace

in order to sort of see if they can tell us something about how workers change or representatives

of work have changed.

It's also of course functions a little bit like those shows in which people mention

do you remember spangles, but we'll ride that one out.

You've got to explain that reference for the large numbers of especially international

listeners who have no idea what you're talking about here.

Well you see there's a big constituency of shows which just consists of talking heads

doing nostalgic callbacks to their childhoods, perhaps about the 1970s, spangles were a

form of sweets that you might have eaten at that time that no longer exists.

We're going to do a bit of that, I really enjoyed the microdose we did on films about

strikes, partly because it gives you an excuse to go away and watch some stuff like,

oh yeah I really really enjoy that.

So there'll be a little bit of that going on, but we're going to try to also include

a little bit of social analysis of course, but at least that's what I've got in my head.

What about you too?

Well I'm doing it because you want it to do me, so we're trying to do it too.

We're doing this because Kio is really enthusiastic about it and you know why not it is a present

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