Do Gooders

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BBC

Comedy

3.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ken receives some bad news that requires him to spend more time at home and Achi is forced to cover his role with unexpected, rather peculiar consequences. Meanwhile Harriett furiously searches for a way to plug a hole in the charity’s finances.

Garrett Millerick’s ensemble sitcom Do Gooders returns for another series. The show takes us back behind the curtain of fictional mid-level charity, The Alzheimers Alliance, as the fundraising events team continue their struggle for survival. Cue more office feuds, more workplace romances and more catastrophic fundraising blunders – all par for the course when trying to ‘do good’ on an industrial scale.

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Cast

Gladys – Kathryn Drysdale Lauren – Ania Magliano Clive – Garrett Millerick Harriett – Fay Ripley Achi – Ahir Shah Ken – Frank Skinner

Writer – Garrett Millerick Additional Material – Andrea Hubert Sound Engineer – David Thomas Editor – David Thomas Production Assistant – Jenny Recaldin Producer – Jules Lom Executive Producers – Richard Allen-Turner, Daisy Knight, Julien Matthews, Jon Thoday

An Avalon Television Production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	Your time starts now.
0:07.2	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.4	Absolutely right.
0:11.5	So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts.
0:15.6	Really?
0:16.4	Wow.
0:17.2	Many of them are very funny.
0:19.1	Which I think means...
0:20.3	A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do very funny. Which I think means... A hatful of ha haas.
0:21.7	And energy.
0:40.2	Even if you do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. Clive, a Zenpic isn't a proven cure for Alzheimer's.
0:40.1	Gladys, it's the most... I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. Clive, a Zenpick isn't a proven cure for Alzheimer's.
0:44.9	Gladys, it's the most zeitgeisty thing to happen to the Alzheimer's Alliance in decades.
0:47.9	We're not doing a campaign called Forget Me Fat.
0:50.9	It doesn't even make sense.
0:54.3	How many celebrities have you tweeted this advert at?
0:58.8	Oh, just 137 of the really fat ones.
1:04.5	That's rich. You look like an advert for blood pressure medication you'd find on the back of a weather spoons toilet door. Oh, come on, it's just a bit of fun. And the insta reel I made
1:10.7	of Ken trying to remember the names of fat celebrities has racked up hundreds of thousands of likes.
1:16.5	And four threats of legal action.
1:18.7	I care to explain this letter?
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