Party's Over - 5th August

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC

Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the Prime Minister suddenly stops being Prime Minister? One day you're the most powerful person in the country, the next you're irrelevant, forced into retirement 30 years ahead of schedule and find yourself asking 'What do I do now?' "I can't just disappear like Gordon Brown. They say he barely gets out of bed now. Just sits there doing word-searches and eating Kit Kat Chunkies. Miserable. I hate the chunky ones." Former British Prime Minister Henry Tobin. Henry hopes that an invitation to make a speech will be the passport he needs to a regular slot on the international lecture circuit. Starring Miles Jupp, Ingrid Oliver, Emma Sidi, Justin Edwards and David Mumeni. Recorded at The Crescent Theatre in Birmingham. Written by Paul Doolan and Jon Hunter Producer: Richard Morris Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow Sound recordist and designer: Chris Maclean A BBC Studios Production.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Parties over by Paul Dulin and John Hunter.
0:09.0	You can't do this. My readers need my column. Fine.
0:13.2	Okay, technically you can do this.
0:15.2	I know I don't have that many readers,
0:17.2	but I operate on a scale of quality, not quantity.
0:20.8	Well, I don't need you.
0:22.8	Don't you think the wife of a former Prime Minister
0:24.8	isn't drowning in offers to write a column?
0:27.0	Hello? Hello?
0:29.0	They can stick it up their ass.
0:32.0	Maybe not the Saturday edition.
0:35.0	Rather than all of the supplements.
0:38.0	I might take it that you've lost your column.
0:41.0	Yes, apparently we just aren't engaging with it online sufficiently
0:44.0	and the content is, quote, too frothy.
0:47.0	Frothy?
0:48.0	What about your hard-hitting pieces,
0:50.0	iconic-bought-of-toasty maker?
0:52.0	And what type of wine glass am I?
0:55.0	Oh, I agree, Mrs. T.
0:57.0	I don't know if there was anything Adrian Charles is putting out.
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