Dimsdale Podcasts

Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, broadcaster and champion quizzer, best known for his appearances on TV’s The Chase. Formerly a doctor, he left medicine to pursue a comedy career, and hasn’t looked back. In each episode of Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz, the quizzer, comedian and Rose d’Or winner Paul Sinha invites the audience […] The post Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Q...

Writer, broadcaster and recovering comedian Natalie Haynes mixes comedy and conversation to bring the ancient world entertainingly up to date in these four radio series. Each episode sees her profiling a key figure from ancient Greece and Rome, and, aided by her special guests, creating a stand-up show around them. Series 1 investigates Petronius and […] The post Natalie Haynes Stands Up for...

What do a whale’s eardrum, a beaver’s anal gland and the feather of a lesbian albatross have in common? They’re not the ingredients for the beginnings of a bad joke, but some of the objects brought in for ‘show and tell’ in Nature Table with Sue Perkins. Listen as a Marine Biologist, an Ethnobotanist, an […] The post Nature Table appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts .

Hugh Laurie, Rory Bremner and Morwenna Banks star in this six-part comedy series that sends up both politics and traditional sitcom conventions 1993, and the party of the loony right and centre sweeps to power, changing the face of politics forever and drastically disrupting the very normal, very predictable, very sitcom lives of the actor-residents […] The post The Party Party appeared firs...

This sitcom follows the life of Ed Reardon, a curmudgeonly writer who has only managed to have one novel published since the 60s. Despite his distinct lack of success, Ed remains bullishly optimistic about his future. Yes, he may only have a single pair of trousers and have one of the lowest sales ranks on […] The post Ed Reardon’s Week appeared first on Dimsdale Podcasts .

Comedian Chloe Petts explores the history of the loo from ancient Roman latrines to the culture wars of today. Chloe begins her journey exploring her own relationship with the toilet. From the revelations in primary school, to the best friends you make in the night club toilet, right up to what her experience is like […] The post Chloe Petts’ Toilet Humour appeared first on Dimsdale Po...

Eleven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of Mary Queen of Scots and the Stuart royals Under the Stuarts, Britain entered the modern world. But with great change came turmoil, and for 111 years, the Stuart monarchs faced dynastic struggles, religious conflict, the rise of parliamentary democracy – and civil war. These dramas […] The post The Stuarts appeared first on Dimsdale P...

A complete collection of this eclectic puntastic Radio 4 sketch comedy Bringing together both The Wildebeest Years and Forty Nights in the Wildebeest, this fantastic collection showcases the brilliant, pop-culture-filled and one-liner-rich comedy of Nick Romero and Dan Freedman. From Incy Wincy Quincy, spider pathologist, and The Archers abroad (and in a new sci-fi format) […] The post The W...

Leslie Phillips stars in this eight-part radio comedy thriller Famous Mayfair hairdresser Hilaire knows all the secrets of feminine beauty. His VIP clients trust him implicitly and take him into their confidence, telling him things they wouldn’t dare tell their husbands or lovers. But unbeknownst to them, he leads a double life as a secret […] The post The House Of Unspeakable Secrets appear...

Season 1 Young, beautiful and courageous, Milady de Winter is a cunning spy, talented thief, and ruthless killer. She glides with ease through the streets and gilded halls of 17th-century France and England, turning heads or, with a click of her fingers, disappearing anonymously into a crowd. Driven by intellect and fierce desire, she is […] The post Milady appeared first on Dimsdale Podcast...

High comic drama among the humble members of a local council in the Home Counties Broadcast live from the Club Akimbo, Bletchley, this is Britain’s first public access cable radio show, presented by a group of Buckinghamshire district councillors who really should know better. Chairman of the Ways and Means committee Mr Dutton is our […] The post Truly, Madly, Bletchley A BBC Radio 4 C...

Ambulance service – is the patient breathing and conscious?’ It’s a simple question, but call handler Carrie never knows where it might lead. Some calls are life-or-death, others hoaxes – and it’s not always easy to tell the difference. The truth is often in the words her callers aren’t saying – and it’s only by […] The post Life Lines appeared...

John Taylor has written and created six new tales that were inspired by the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Simon Callow stars as Sherlock Holmes and Nicky Henson as Dr. Watson in these fresh stories that were originally heard on BBC Radio. “The Wandering Corpse”: the professor claimed he could resurrect the […] The post Unopened Casebook Of Sherlock Holme...

2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it’s been! In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon, published between 1887 and 1927, there have been literally thousands of […] The post Imagination Theatre Sherlock Holmes appeared first...

A major BBC Radio series charting the history of post-war Britain through the lives of Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto, bound forever by one moment in 1946. London, 1946. Struggling to cope with the idea of raising her daughter in a hostile environment, African-Caribbean nurse Hope makes the difficult decision to entrust […] The post Faith, Hope and Glory appeared first on Dim...

A pair of thriller series from prolific radio writer Wally K. Daly Award-winning dramatist Wally K. Daly penned numerous plays for BBC Radio across a range of genres, including the beloved sci-fi ‘Scream Trilogy’ and the sitcoms Anything Legal and Give Or Take. Featured here are two of his gripping thriller series: the tense spy […] The post Orphans in Waiting and The Children of Witchwood T...