Dead Ringers, Series 20, Episode 2

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Social bubbles, social distancing, Covid 19, R numbers, it’s all a lot to comprehend, but the big questions for the team is how Michael Portillo will cope with wearing a mask on Great British Railway Journeys? There’s a special guest appearance alongside Bad Boris: Bad Winston Churchill, and Priti Patel introduces her new head of track and trace. Starring: Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, Duncan Wisbey and Debra Stephenson. Written by Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, Sarah Campbell, James Bugg, Simon Alcock, Cody Dahler, Jane Mccutcheon, Vivienne Riddoch, Gareth Cederic, Jeffrey Aidoo, Charlie Dinkin, Paige Wilson, Zoe Brown, Aidan Fitzmaurice and Cassie smith Producer Bill Dare A BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	Ah, you are listening to the Friday Night Comedy Podcast from the BBC, recorded remotely,
0:06.3	and all interconnected with the finest technological washing lines ever created. Lockdown?
0:12.1	Ah, no, no, no. The unifying effects will be incalculable.
0:17.1	To enjoy, have a jelly baby.
0:30.0	Dad ringers, the lockdown verse.
0:41.0	You're listening to Today with me Nick Robinson and me Martha Carney.
0:47.2	Lockdown requirements mean we should both be presenting from home, but we're still in
0:51.5	the queue for our local primark we joined three days ago.
0:54.8	The headlines on Monday, non-essential shops opened in England for the first time in
0:59.7	three months. There were massive queues around the country mostly of people trying to return
1:04.8	the rubbish they'd brought drunk and bored over the last three months. Isn't that right,
1:09.2	Nick?
1:10.2	Don't know what you mean Martha. I've always wanted a luminous bird bath in the shape of John
1:13.9	Humphries. It's just slightly the wrong size.
1:17.2	People flooded to the shops.
1:18.7	The fear of the virus remained. Some shops even demanded if a customer touched something
1:23.6	accidentally they had to take it home.
1:26.5	Meaning one woman left H&M in Oxford Street with three pairs of tights, a halter neck dress
1:31.5	and a security guard called Clive.
1:33.9	Football returned with man-city defeating Arsenal 3-0 and Marcus Rashford defeating the
1:39.0	government on free meals for school children.
1:41.7	Boris Johnson claimed he hadn't seen anything about Rashford's petition until the Wednesday,
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