Dead Ringers - Series 20 Episode 3

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As lock down eases the team look at important issues such as the possibility of next wave, the test and trace system, and how one of the most famous scenes in comedy would work in a Covid-secure environment. Starring: Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, Duncan Wisbey and Debra Stephenson. Written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain, Ed Amsden and Tom Coles, Sarah Campbell, James Bugg, Simon Alcock and others. 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.
0:04.7	Record it remotely and all interconnected with the finest technological washing lines ever created.
0:10.8	Lockdown? Ah, no, no, no.
0:13.7	The unifying effects will be incalculable.
0:16.8	To enjoy, have a jelly baby.
0:30.0	Dad, ringers, the lockdown version.
0:42.0	You're listening to today with me Nick Robinson and me Martha Carney.
0:48.2	Britain, this week was gripped by a massive heat wave.
0:51.2	With temperatures hitting 30 degrees, the whole country was producing more sweat than housing
0:56.2	secretary Robert Jenric.
0:58.2	Richard has been accused of fast-tracking a planning application by Richard Desmond to save
1:02.6	the billionaire businessman some £50 million.
1:06.3	Richard Desmond made his fortune through publishing, with titles such as Asian Babes, Readers
1:11.6	Wives and more embarrassingly the daily express.
1:15.7	Rebecca Long Bailey has been sacked as shadow education secretary after sharing an article
1:20.6	on Twitter which contained an alleged antisemitic conspiracy theory.
1:25.0	I can't quite believe what has just happened to me.
1:28.0	I mean, sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories used to get you into the shadow cabinet, not
1:34.4	booted out of it.
1:36.4	And Sir Keir Starma made this statement.
1:39.5	As party leader, saying goodbye to a trusted and valued colleague is never easy.
1:45.2	So thank God I'm sacking Rebecca, as that's one less corporate like fruit cake I feel obliged
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