The Burkiss Way is a BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy series, originally broadcast between August 1976 and November 1980. It was written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, with additional material in series 1 and 2 by John Mason, Colin Bostock-Smith, Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, Tom Magee Englefield and Liz Pollock.
The first series of the show starred Denise Coffey, Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris. From series 2 onwards the show starred Jo Kendall, Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris. The series had three producers, announced as "Simon Brett of Stepney", "John Lloyd of Europe" and "David 'Hatch of the BBC' Hatch".
The show's humour was based on surrealism and literary and media parodies, sprinkled with puns.
TheBurkissWay is a BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy series, originally broadcast between August 1976 and November 1980. It was written by Andrew Marshall and...
they wrote the BBC Radio 4 comedy series TheBurkissWay and provided sketches for BBC television shows such as The Two Ronnies and Not the Nine O'Clock...
British actor and comedian best known for his work on the BBC Radio 4 comedies TheBurkissWay (1976-1980) and Alison and Maud (2002-2004). He was a regular...
1979 to 1980 and was an attempt at a TV version of TheBurkissWay. The first series concerned the lives of Norman and Vera Straightman, who had their...
(1981). On radio, Coffey featured in The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, in the first series of TheBurkissWay and in The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately...
she was in the radio comedy series TheBurkissWay and played Lady Cynthia Fitzmelton in the opening episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in...
about the weather. You can't fix the weather – you just have to get on with it." Some of Adams's early radio work included sketches for TheBurkissWay in...
Now in Colour The Arthur Smith Lectures Beat The Kids Boothby Graffoe, In No Particular Order and Big Booth Too The Brothers TheBurkissWay Cabin Pressure...
Hatch co-devised the satirical show Week Ending and produced other comedy radio shows such as Just a Minute, Hello, Cheeky!, TheBurkissWay, From Us To You...
., in the Betty Witherspoon Show with Ted Ray, Kenneth Williams and Miriam Margolyes, and then in all six series of the comedy TheBurkissWay. Comedy...
In the BBC Radio Four series TheBurkissWay edition 35, broadcast on 2 April 1979, he was impersonated by Nigel Rees in a fairly lengthy parody "The Blood...
episode of TheBurkissWay likewise parodied it as Ask the Cleverdicks. At one point tabloid newspapers made much of an occasion where the father of one...
the United Kingdom an example is The BurkissWay. Radio in Canada is fragmented between the public broadcasters the CBC and Radio Canada in English and...
4's 1970s TheBurkissWay (with David Renwick), and was Douglas Adams' inspiration for the character Marvin in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Maj-Gen...
Unquote on BBC Radio 4 (1976–2021) 27 August – TheBurkissWay on BBC Radio 4 (1976–1980) 30 September – The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 (1976–present)...
(1973–Present) The News Huddlines (1975–2001) TheBurkissWay (1976–1980) 16 July – The Navy Lark (1959–1977) 22 August – The Men from the Ministry (1962–1977)...
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