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15 Minute Musical. Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

15 Minute Musical
15 Minute Musical. Image credit: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

15 Minute Musical

Current affairs and celebrity stories told in musical form, created by Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick

AKA:
15 Minute Musicals
Genre:
Musical
Broadcast:
2004 - 2008  (BBC Radio 4)
Episodes:
31 (5 series)
Starring:
Dave Lamb, Richard Webb, Melanie Hudson, Vicki Pepperdine, Alex Lowe, Dave Cohen
Writers:
Dave Cohen, David Quantick, Richard Webb
Production:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Each episode of this radio series takes an easily identifiable public figure and contorts their story into a bitesize West End Musical.

Recent targets satirised by the show include Heather Mills-McCartney, Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Jeremy Clarkson and Camilla Parker Bowles.

The new series covers the US Election, Piers Morgan's search for his real father (Pappa Pia), Nick Clegg's search for a personality, Demon chef Ramsay Todd's search for the perfect pie ingredient, Ebenezer Brown's search for Christmas cheer, and Boris Johnson driving a bus from Beijing to Bow in the hope that he'll arrive in time for the London Olympics.

Our Review: Every episode of this show delivers 15 minutes of carefully crafted upbeat satire. We love it.