Wosson Cornwall

Comedy of the Week

BBC

Comedy

4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dawn French and Edward Rowe star in a new sketch show with a Cornish flavour. Park the clichés and open your eyes to the reality of this wondrous funny and feral land. Visit Rick Stein's Cornwall (he's got planning permission for it), meet LJ and Jess, the low energy Gen-Z receptionists at the Royal Hotel, and find out just how important shanty singers are to the Cornish economy. Recorded in front of an audience at the Acorn Theatre in Penzance, Wosson Cornwall? is a sketch show celebrating everything that makes real contemporary Cornwall a culturally rich and funny place - its people, its history and its modern way of life. This is the first episode in a four part series with an entirely Cornish cast and writing team. The cast includes Dawn French (Vicar of Dibley / French and Saunders), Edward Rowe (star of Bafta-winning film BAIT and HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon), Tamsyn Kelly (ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show, BBC New Comedian of the Year Award finalist 2021), Joanna Neary (Channel 4 sitcom Man Down and Gary Oldman film The Darkest Hour), Anna Keirle (award-winning Cornish stand-up, actress and writer) and award-winning actor Ciaran Clarke. Written by James Henry, Morwenna Banks, Catherine Beazley, Max Davis, Jane Harvey, Tamsyn Kelly, Jo Neary, and Alex Smith. Script Editor: James Henry Music: The Jolly Strumpets Production Co-ordinator: Tamara Shilham Sound Design: David Thomas Produced by Simon Nicholls A Mighty Bunny production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.7	Hi, I'm Athenica Blenu and this is Comedy of the Week from BBC Radio 4.
0:09.6	Save a new, a trip out the house by bringing the very best comedy right to your ears.
0:14.2	Who wants to sit in a comedy club anyway these days?
0:17.3	They're full of comedians, err, those attention seekers don't laugh in front of comedians,
0:23.5	it'll just encourage them.
0:25.0	Laugh remotely via the radio and keep our egos in check.
0:29.8	Enjoy the show!
0:34.5	At the southernmost tip of Britain is a land steeped in history,
0:39.5	a place of pirates and pasties, castles and cream teas,
0:43.8	hashtag Jamfors.
0:46.0	But Cornwall has so much more to offer,
0:49.0	a lack of affordable housing, high unemployment,
0:52.7	and bakeries that charge five pounds for a pastie
0:56.1	that you can't bite into anywhere,
0:58.0	because there are no sodding dentists.
1:00.2	LAUGHTER
1:01.9	Join me, Dawn French, as we explore this magical county.
1:06.1	This is Was on Cornwall.
1:08.2	La, la, la, la, la, la...
1:15.3	WHISTLE BLESK
1:16.5	Hey mate, just open, you could lift the barrier,
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