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Comedy of the Week

Live from the UK

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Live from the UK brings you the best comedy talent from around the country, all from the comfort of your own headphones.

Stand up legend Angela Barnes talks to Glasgow about their swearing, Newcastle about their love of getting starkers on holiday, and Manchester about the rude origins of their city's name.

She brings you acts from all of these places and more, covering topics as far and wide as heatwaves, Gazza, hen dos and the George Foreman grill. How many shows can say that?

This week you can hear;

Mark Nelson at The Stand, Glasgow Louise Young at The Stand, Newcastle Hayley Ellis at the Frog and Bucket, Manchester and headliner Josh Pugh at the Glee Club, Birmingham

Additional Material by Eve Delaney

Recorded by Sean Kerwin and David Thomas Sound design by David Thomas Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls Executive Producer: Pete Strauss

Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4.

An EcoAudio Certified Production.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

0:05.1

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

0:08.7

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

0:13.5

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

0:19.1

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

0:21.7

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

0:24.5

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

0:28.6

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

0:31.3

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

0:36.1

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

0:40.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:48.9

Hello, you are listening to live from the UK.

0:54.5

I'm Angela Barnes and I am bringing you some of the best stand-up comedians from across the land.

1:00.1

We will be in this show from Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, but we come to you first from Glasgow.

1:16.6

It makes me so happy to be in Glasgow. I bloody love Glasgow. I feel like I should have been born here. I should have been. Look at me. I'm pasty as they come. I'm so pasty. I swear

1:23.5

like a docker. I should be Glasgow. That's the thing, because you swear like punctuation, don't you here?

1:29.9

You know, you do and I do as well. What I always say, like, as a working class girl from the South, what we lack in 80s, we make up for in Fs. that swearing's the worst thing that you can do but it isn't is it it's not the worst

1:44.6

we don't teach our kids the real sign that someone's are wrong and do we like like not having

1:50.3

a sense of humor or playing golf i like saying that because it makes a certain type of man fold his

2:00.8

arms really turns I like saying that because it makes a certain type of man fold his arms.

2:04.1

Really turns me on.

2:07.4

I don't know about you, Glasgow. I don't know about you.

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