The Complete Series 1-2

Bigipedia

Welcome to Bigipedia - the omniscient friend you know from your computer and laser watch takes over your PC for 30 minutes in a unique experiment in broadwebcasting...

Welcome to Bigipedia - the omniscient friend you know from your computer and laser watch takes over your PC for 30 minutes in a unique experiment in broadwebcasting... 
 
This is the complete first and second series featuring Martha Howe-Douglas, Nick Doody, Matt Kirshen and Pippa Evans. Launched on an unsuspecting public, Bigipedia is a massive mash-up of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Wikipedia, My Space, Yahoo and Amazon, all vying for your attention, love, money and occasionally vital organs. Sponsored by Chianti, the world's worst-ever beverage with its series of ever more off-putting straplines ("Chianti - legally, wine"). 
 
"A stimulating and brilliantly sustained parody... a radio classic." - Mail On Sunday 
 
"Who imagined the internet could be so wikidly comical?" - The Independent on Sunday 
 
"A magnificent new comedy inspired by and spoofing the online info site Wikipedia" - The Sunday Times 
 
"If you're going to steal, the cliché goes, steal from the best and Bigipedia's influences are solid comedy gold ... the whole project is clearly the project of some very deranged minds" - The Independent 
 
"Very clever and ineffably wonderful. But just don't try and follow it sequentially, especially at this time of night. You'll do yourself a mischief.'' - Radio Times 
Over the first series you can pick your own Audio Screensaver from a choice of "Paris By Night", "Laughing Clowns" or "Duelling Tarzans", meet Felix Richards, the world's most petrified ghosthunter, pay extra to hear the show in more than Monovoice, hear the Bigipedia entry on the mysterious world of The Bee Whisperer. And this week's edition of Bigikids will teach you "How To Be A Spy"!, enjoy the full benefits of having a BigiNanoBot implanted in your brain to fully enhance the sharing experience (or "hive mind") and, if you're feeling any sort of pain or death, take advantage of our free BigiMedic software to allow us to allow you to diagnose yourself. 
 
And now - you can enjoy the long-awaited release of Bigipedia 2.0 - the infallible, ever-present cyberfriend is back! Now with all errors mistake. 
 
In episode 2, we discover how Bigipedia 2.0 is now bigger, better and closer - so it looks bigger twice! Also, the wisdom of crowds, the joy of deregulated advertising and Bigipedia throughout history. 
 
In episode 3, Bigipedia 2.0 launches its own social network, BigiBuzz! Find out what's popular so you can be one of them! Also, Britain's least-haunted House is visited by terrified ghost-hunter Felix Richard and we find out the true meaning of pilk and pleather. 
 
And in the final episode, we launch BigiHype - the sure-fire way to raise the profile of a new event or an unpopular charity! 
 
Written by Nick Doody, Matt Kirshen & Sarah Morgan with Carey Marx 
Conceived by Nick Doody 
Music by Guy Jackson 
Produced & directed by David Tyler

Marcus Brigstocke

Sarah Morgan

Kerry Godliman

India Brown

Jasmine Sakyiama

Mia Jenkins

Aine McNamara

Caitlin Moran

Full Cast

A BBC Radio 4 comedy

The complete Series 1-3 of the full-cast BBC comedy about trying to live ethically and do the right thing 
 
Michael (Marcus Brigstocke) and Maxine (Kerry Godliman) Wilson and their teenage daughters, Lola and Cat, (plus their bearded dragon Chomsky, and about 150,000 bees) have resolved to live a cleaner, greener, serener life. They are attempting to live ethically... whatever that means. 
 
The Wilsons conscientiously tackle tricky situations and dilemmas; from balancing the need of hot sun on holiday to a carbon-neutral campsite, explaining the pitfalls of online relationships to their daughter by drawing parallels to Brexit or protesting library closures when, according to Cat, everything can be found online anyway. 
 
The family, good folk that they are, are trying about 20% harder and learning to live with about 19% more failure in trying to save the world. They are not giving up. 
 
Written by Marcus Brigstocke and Sarah Morgan 
Produced by Julia McKenzie and Suzy Grant 
A BBC Studios Production 
 
Cast 
Mike - Marcus Brigstocke 
Max - Kerry Godliman 
Lola - India Brown/Jasmine Sakyiama 
Cat - Mia Jenkins/Aine McNamara 
BMW Paul/Postman/Marlin - Mike Wozniak 
Phillip - Rupert Vansittart 
Jennifer - Vicki Pepperdine 
Pauline - Liza Tarbuck 
Till/Frankie/TV Presenter - Shannon Murray 
Herself - Caitlin Moran 
Shopkeeper - George Fouracres 
Mrs Denton/Cosmos/DC Hunter - Nimisha Odedra 
Various - Kiell Smith-Bynoe 
First broadcast in November 2017 (Series 1), February-March 2019 (Series 2), November 2020 (Series 3) 
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(P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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