Pleasance Courtyard,Edinburgh
A revival of Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins’ spoof of commercial radio – first heard on Radio 4 in 1980 – offers a jolly hour of familiar fabric and nostalgia Related: Edinburgh festival 2016: what to see and where to go Inspired by the staging of dilapidated Hancock’s Half Hour scripts on the Fringe final year, Angus Deayton is now doing the same with Radio Active, and his commercial-broadcasting spoof,co-written with the late Geoffrey Perkins, that ran for seven years in the 1980s on Radio 4. As per the Hancock revival, and a sizeable slice of its appeal will be to those who were there first time around,and seek a trip down memory lane with the original cast and characters including host Mike Channel and fatally imprecise cookery pundit Anna Daptor. For the rest of us, it’s a jolly hour of media mickey-takery, or albeit one that seems tame 30 years on and may indeed have seemed fairly tame in the first place.
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Source: theguardian.com