Dead Ringers - Christmas Specials 2020 - Episode 2

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Topical satire from Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis McLeod, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey. Dead Ringers somehow manages to make fishing quotas funny. Other topics include The Crown, panic shopping, Christmas bubbling and why on earth the BBC has redesigned the Daleks. The writing squad for the series: Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, Sarah Campbell, James Bugg, Simon Alcock, Jeffrey Aidoo, Alex Hardy, Edward Tew, Lewis Cook, Jane McCutcheon and Vivienne Riddoch, Sophie Dickson and Cody Daher. Producer: Bill Dare. A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:06.7	Next spring, it's the movie of a year
0:09.7	an international incident, countries at war,
0:12.5	world leaders at each other's throats.
0:14.7	It's a job for one man.
0:17.1	I don't know who you are.
0:18.6	I don't know what you want.
0:20.0	But what I do have are a very particular set of skills.
0:23.7	And those skills are making fish into tiny shapes
0:26.8	and covering them with breadcrumbs.
0:28.8	Liam Neeson stars as Captain Bird's Eye
0:32.2	in Taken, our fish.
0:34.6	There's a herring being pursued by a boat full of Frenchmen.
0:37.8	And we need to act now before it ends up
0:40.3	on the plate of a family of five in Brittany.
0:42.6	Instead of in a British dustbin
0:44.4	because we don't really eat herring.
0:46.2	In a world between good and evil,
0:48.7	a world between hope and fear,
0:51.1	a world between currency and sarc,
0:53.6	you will find Captain Bird's Eye.
0:56.3	Only the best for the captain's table,
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