Dead Ringers, Series 20, Episode 4

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We hear from Leicester’s oldest resident about the lockdown restrictions, the real reasons for the Covid19 outbreaks in meat factories, and a former Prime Minister performs in Alan Bennett’s latest Talking Head. Starring: Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, Duncan Wisbey and Debra Stephenson. Written by Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, Alex Hardy, James Bugg, Simon Alcock, Gareth Ceredig, Athena Kugblenu, Kate Lipson and Sophie Dixon. 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, ring us, the lockdown version.
0:41.4	You're listening to Today with me, Nick Robinson.
0:46.4	And me, Martha Carney.
0:48.2	The headlines.
0:49.5	To prove his virility, as he recovers from the coronavirus, Boris Johnson concluded a newspaper
0:54.7	interview by doing a push-up.
0:56.8	The first time we've associated the words pointless exercise with Boris Johnson.
1:00.9	Kia Starrmer then responded by challenging the PM to 50 press-ups.
1:05.4	I'm in peak physical shape.
1:07.7	I spend an hour on the treadmill every morning,
1:10.2	as guessing nowhere fast is what the Labour Party has been all about this past decade.
1:15.1	Boris Johnson said he was shocked that his father Stanley had flown out to Greece to the family villa,
1:21.1	as he thought he had first dibs on it for the next two weeks.
1:24.6	In the city of Leicester, a strict lockdown was reimposed,
1:28.1	and Downing Street urged locals to only leave their homes for essential shopping,
1:32.7	or to drive hundreds of miles to Durham to test their eyesight.
1:35.9	The Prime Minister reminded the people of Leicester of the importance of obeying the lockdown rules,
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