Summer Comedy Festival - Darren Harriott

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Darren Harriott curates his ideal festival: a magical carnival of surprise called The Festival of the Unexpected. Featuring trombonists, acrobats, wrestling and opera, it's a whimsical journey through Darren's favourite things with his favourite people. Also, there are vampires. This episode features Faye Treacy, Aaron Twitchen, Rob Halden and Alice Ruxandra Bell, with writing by Natasha Mwansa and Kemah Bob. Piano accompaniment was provided by Alex Beetschen. The producer was Ella Watts, and the production co-ordinator was Caroline Barlow. Sound design is by Chris Maclean. This is a BBC Studios production.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.6	Is this thing on?
0:08.8	There's something you need to know.
0:11.1	A new thriller is coming to BBC Sounds.
0:13.6	They're keeping it under wraps but we've hacked the system.
0:16.2	The world is dying.
0:17.7	It's time to take action.
0:19.6	Subscribe to Power Out on BBC Sounds.
0:22.4	Power Out.
0:30.0	Hello there.
0:58.5	My name is Darren Harrier.
1:00.4	The good folks at Radio 4 asked me to host my very own festival and said I can do whatever
1:05.7	I want and I said, can you afford surprises because I love festivals where I have no idea
1:12.9	what I'm going to say.
1:14.5	Who I'm going to meet, where I'm going to be.
1:17.5	Well, where I'm going to be is technically in my flat with a broken fan.
1:24.0	But still, I told them being surprised is one of the best parts of being alive.
1:29.2	So how about you surprise me?
1:31.3	I love surprise pies.
1:33.0	Then again, I figure I just love parties.
1:35.3	I'm always the guy who's front of the line on any conger.
1:38.6	That's a true captain's role.
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