Alison Spittle: Petty Please
Comedy of the Week
BBC
4 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Alison Spittle explores some of her longest and deepest held grudges. The kind of thing most people would be ashamed to still be thinking about 30 minutes later, let alone contemplating exacting retribution decades on.
Studies show that the role you play in the school nativity can affect your life. And Alison is taking those studies very seriously. She was once cast as Mary - big gig - but forced to drop out after the director said she lacked focus. 30 years on, it's still something she thinks about. Can Natalie Cassidy help Alison get closure?
Written by Alison Spittle & Simon Mulholland With Ian Smith and Natalie Cassidy Script Edited by Joel Morris Produced by Lyndsay Fenner
A Mighty Bunny Production for BBC Radio 4
About Alison: Alison Spittle is an award-winning screenwriter, actress and comedian.
She is the creator, writer and star of the TV series Nowhere Fast which aired on RTE2 to critical acclaim in 2017. Her play Starlet premiered to great acclaim at the Dublin Fringe Festival, garnering 5 stars from The Sunday Times. She can also be heard on The Guilty Feminist and BBC Radio 4’s Wheel of Misfortune.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others. |
| 0:05.2 | My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:11.3 | It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here, |
| 0:16.3 | but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world. |
| 0:19.6 | And because the team is such a diverse |
| 0:21.2 | range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through |
| 0:26.0 | archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if |
| 0:31.8 | you like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories |
| 0:37.1 | from all around the UK. BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK. |
| 0:40.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. This is Petty Please. I'm Alison Spittle, comedian and Petty Woman. |
| 0:48.1 | In this series, I attempt to attain some sort of self-awareness about my petty nature to heal |
| 0:53.0 | and to ultimately get revenge against everyone |
| 0:55.5 | who's ever wronged me. |
| 0:57.5 | In this week's episode, there's something about Mary. |
| 1:10.0 | As I said, my name is Alison Spittle. |
| 1:11.6 | I was born in England, brought up in Ireland with an Irish mum and an English dad. |
| 1:16.6 | Now I've got my very own series on BBC Radio 4. |
| 1:19.6 | I'll probably have my Irish passport revoked. |
| 1:22.6 | Never to return again. |
| 1:24.6 | Let me preface what you're about to hear by reminding you that I am a very petty person. |
| 1:30.3 | I bear grudges, right? |
| 1:31.7 | I am still angry at the man who stole my nose as a child. |
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