Series 1-4 of the hit BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch show

Small Scenes

A comedy sketch show featuring overblown, melodramatic scenes from modern life.

Daniel Rigby, Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker and Jessica Ransom star in this comedy sketch show featuring overblown, melodramatic scenes from modern life. 
 
From ludicrous scenarios ranging from conspiracies behind cryptic crosswords, the perils of dating a banker, and someone accidentally being buried alive, this sketch show takes the normal and makes them ridiculous. The team uncover a conspiracy behind cryptic crosswords, encounter a saxophonist who is tortured by his inability to play the solo from Baker Street and discover what happens if you buy Chris de Burgh's old house. 
 
Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak, with additional material from the cast, this ridiculous, surreal and witty series also stars Sara Pascoe. 
 
Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer 
A BBC Studios Production

The BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show

It’s Your Round: The Complete Series 1 and 2

Deayton…is a born host, an arch, deadpan foil to contestants' excesses.

The format is simple: there isn't one. 
 
Instead, each of the panellists brings their own round for the others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. In each episode, four top comedians will battle it out to see who gets to be champion. Angus Deayton is the host, valiantly trying to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. 
 
The panellists trying to beat each other at their own games include Miles Jupp, Sara Pascoe, Andy Parsons, Rebecca Front, Russell Kane, Josie Long, Tim Key, Micky Flanagan, Bridget Christie, Alan Davies, Roisin Conaty, Sandi Toksvig, Clive Anderson, Will Self, Gyles Brandreth and Alex Horne. 
 
Hear them battle it out in made up rounds such as 'What Does My Dad Know?', 'It’s Not Your Round', 'Twitter-witter-witter-who', 'Nine Previous Convictions', 'Cockney Rhyming Slang Charades' and 'Fantasy Funeral'. 
 
‘Deayton…is a born host, an arch, deadpan foil to contestants' excesses.’ – The Independent 
 
Devised by Benjamin Partridge 
Written by Angus Deayton and Paul Powell 
Produced by Sam Michell

Gareth Gwynn

Benjamin Partridge

Steve Speirs

Elis James

Full Cast

Katy Wix

Well crafted, well acted, with the requisite level of nuttiness

Ankle Tag had an original and promising situation: ex-con father tries to smooth talk his way into his son’s happy family. I’d happily hear what happens next

A BBC Radio Comedy

All three series of the BBC radio sitcom about a fraudster dad on parole - plus pilot episode The Beginning 
 
'Well crafted, well acted, with the requisite level of nuttiness' - Miranda Sawyer, The Observer 
 
Ex-con Bob has done his time. After five years at Her Majesty's pleasure, he's been released on licence with an ankle tag registered to his estranged son's address. Uptight Gruff isn't too happy about it - he's just become a father himself, and the last thing he needs is his delinquent dad back in his life. But Bob turns on the charm, persuading sympathetic daughter-in-law Alice that his heart's in the right place, and manages to inveigle his way into moving in. 
 
These three series find him getting back on the dating scene, landing a job as a bingo caller, catching up with an old acquaintance from C Wing and reconnecting with a long-lost family member. Meanwhile, Gruff is delighted when he's commissioned to write an article about smoothies, Alice bonds with Bob over ape-based reality show Monkey World, Gruff and Alice decide to get daughter Carys baptised and Alice's mum has a new boyfriend - but Bob is suspicious. Can he use his expert knowledge of the Falklands War to prove that Jeffrey's a conman? 
 
Scripted by acclaimed comedy writers Gareth Gwynn and Benjamin Partridge, this quirky, warm-hearted sitcom stars Steve Speirs as Bob, with Elis James as Gruff and Katy Wix and Margaret Cabourn-Smith as Alice. Among the guest stars are Morwenna Banks, Neil Pearson, Felicity Montagu and Ben Willbond. 
 
Please note: content has been updated as of January 2021 
 
Credits 
Published by Penguin Random House Ltd 
Licensed by BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
 
 
Production credits 
Written by Gareth Gwynn and Benjamin Partridge 
Produced by Victoria Lloyd (Pilot and Series 1 &amp; 2) and Adnan Ahmed (Series 3) 
Sound Designer: David Thomas 
Production Co-Ordinator: Gwyn Davies 
A BBC Studios Production 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18 November 2015 ('The Beginning'), 30 August-13 September 2017 (Series 1), 31 October-21 November 2018 (Series 2), 28 May-2 July 2020 (Series 3) 
 
Cast 
Gruff - Elis James 
Alice - Katy Wix/Margaret Cabourn-Smith 
Bob - Steve Speirs 
Linda/Mariella - Gemma Whelan 
David/Terry - Oliver Maltman 
Pam - Vivienne Acheampong/Anna Brophy Leon 
Chris/Trevor/Monkey World announcer - Jason Forbes 
Ruth/Ruby - Shola Adewusi 
Margaret/Ena - Morwenna Banks 
Keith/Father Mike/Anthony - Mike Wozniak 
Richard Flint - Neil Pearson 
Tabitha/Receptionist - Adelayo Adedayo 
Hakan/Canteen Guy - Naz Osmanoglu 
Lauren - Ruth Bratt 
Nappy advert v/o - Anna Leong Brophy 
Jeffrey - Simon Greenall 
Elaine - Felicity Montagu 
Graham- Ben Willbond 
Cash and Carry Worker/Sara- Vivienne Acheampong 
Rashid - Phaldut Sharma 
Harry - Owen Money 
Anna - Sally Tatum 
Nicholas - Tom Crowley 
Joanna - Emily Lloyd-Saini 
Zara - Chiara Goldsmith 
Simon - Jordan Brookes 
Bailiff - Sanjeev Kohli 
Darren - Kevin Eldon 
Cashier - Emma Sidi 
Rich - Jon Pointing 
Megan - Gabby Best 
Ian - Marek Larwood 
Monica - Amy Gledhill 
Quentin - Robert Bathurst 
Roz - Julia Deakin 
Shirley - Gbemisola Ikumelo 
Barbara - Ruth Madoc 
Derek - Joseph Marcell

Benjamin Partridge

Praise for Ankle Tag: Series 1-3

Well crafted, well acted, with the requisite level of nuttiness

Ankle Tag had an original and promising situation: ex-con father tries to smooth talk his way into his son’s happy family. I’d happily hear what happens next

Books by Benjamin Partridge

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