Show Name: | Peacefully in Their Sleeps |
Format: | Comedy |
Runtime: | 15 mins |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Home Station: | BBC Radio 4 |
Starring: | Geoff McGivern |
Producer: | Colin Anderson |
First Aired: | 8 August 2007 |
Last Aired: | 12 September 2007 |
Num Series: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 6 |
Website: | Website at BBC Radio 4 |
Peacefully in Their Sleeps is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series written by Chris Chantler and Howard Read. Paying tribute to fictional celebrities, it lampoons postwar popular culture using fake archive footage and interviews. Six episodes were produced, and aired from July until September 2007.
Each episode memorialises a different fictional celebrity, with guest stars including Marcus Brigstocke, Elizabeth Spriggs, Richard Briers, Jeffrey Holland, Paul Putner, Phyllida Law and Dan Antopolski. Geoff McGivern plays the programme's presenter Roydon Postlethwaite.
Episode 1: Rene Fortesque-Spencer-FrenchEpisode 2: Sir Matthias BlaggardEpisode 3: Jeff PeacockEpisode 4: Douggie 'The Shins' WildEpisode 5: Dame Penelope SwayEpisode 6: Sister Cecilia of Caracas