Tim Key’s Poetry Programme: The Complete Series 5-7

The BBC Radio 4 Comedy

By: Tim Key

Narrated by: Tim Key, Tom Basden, Katy Wix, Mike Wozniak, Stephen Merchant, Lolly Adefope, Morgana Robinson, Bridget Christie, Miles Jupp, Full Cast

Tim Key returns with more comic chaos, musically supported by Tom Basden

Award-winning comedian Tim Key is back with three more series of his peculiar poetry programme. Having presented the show from a houseboat, a space simulator and the top of the Shard, he now ventures even further afield in his increasingly ineffective attempts to understand life through the medium of verse.

In these 12 episodes, he finds himself stuck in a cable car high above the Norwegian fjords, making a movie in Rome, stranded in an Austrian cave network with the water rising, and broadcasting live from the labour ward where Megan is having a baby. He also prepares to make his TV debut, gets in trouble with Customs at Stansted Airport, heads out on safari (in Woburn) and hits the road in an Americana special...

Accompanying him on his adventures are regulars Tom Basden and Katy Wix, and guest stars including Miles Jupp, Bridget Christie, Stephen Merchant, Lolly Adefope, Mike Wozniak, Sam Campbell and Morgana Robinson.

‘His sentences never end where you expect them to and the oddly appealing atmosphere he creates is so spellbinding, it's like emerging from a nice fog when he spits you out at the other end.’ Julia Raeside, The Guardian

Cast
Key – Tim Key
Lord – Tom Basden
Megan – Katy Wix
Jiffy – Mike Wozniak
Sir Hayden – Miles Jupp
Pamela – Carlotta Morelli
Bunny – Karl Johnson
Bogle – Bridget Christie
With Stephen Merchant, Lolly Adefope, Sam Campbell, Simon Armstrong, Morgana Robinson

Photo by Jonathan Birch

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