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Comedy of the Week

Ian Smith Is Stressed

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Ian Smith is constantly stressed and in this series he is looking for any means to calm the hell down. In this episode Ian explores how being Northern has made him more stressed and attempts a new wellness fad that’s sweeping the fields of England, cow-hugging.

A new stand-up series from Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated comedian Ian Smith.

Written and Performed by Ian Smith

Additional Material from Rhiannon Shaw, Max Davis and Charlie Dinkin

Assistant Producer: Ewan McAdam

Produced by Benjamin Sutton and Laura Shaw

A Daddy’s SuperYacht production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0

Music uncovered, the UK Garage Story, hosted by DJ Spoody and Jam Supernova.

0:07.0

I want to tell you all a little story.

0:09.0

From US House and a Sunday scene before the gram, it was UKG from the early 90s nursery to the 30th year anniversary

0:15.8

join us as we rewind through the hits pivotal figures and moments that took UK garage

0:20.7

and transformed into Britain's number one party starting sound.

0:24.0

We did the, the, the, the, the, doing it again.

0:26.0

Music uncovered, the UK Garage Story.

0:28.0

Listen now on BBC Sounds.

0:30.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to Ian Smith is stressed a comedy show all about stress and my misguided

0:46.8

attempts at relaxation I'm the sort of person who takes a chill pill but accidentally

0:51.6

orders the suppository version.

0:53.4

But the world is a stressful place full of stressful things,

0:57.6

the looming threat of nuclear war,

0:59.4

unaffordable house prices and sometimes when you put two headphone cables in the same compartment of

1:04.2

your bag they become impossible to separate.

1:07.8

This is my first Radio 4 series and I've scored a major coup as the BBC have allowed this to

1:12.2

be part of the Archer Cinematic Universe.

1:17.0

All I needed to do was agree to occasionally involve cows and we're in.

1:21.3

Because I'm stressed almost all the time. I even find my name stressful. If you

1:25.1

Google Ian Smith, the first 20 pages are about the former white supremacist dictator

1:30.0

of Rhodesia. The next 20 are about Ian Duncan Smith who's arguably worse.

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