Arthur Smiths Balham Bash The Compl..., Arthur Smith
Arthur Smiths Balham Bash The Compl..., Arthur Smith
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Arthur Smith's Balham Bash: The Complete Series 1-3
A BBC Radio 4 comedy

Author: Arthur Smith

Narrator: Arthur Smith, Miles Jupp, Milton Jones, Paloma Faith, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Paul Sinha, Micky Flanagan, Josh Widdicombe, Jenny Eclair, Full Cast

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2022

Categories: Fiction, Humorous


Synopsis

Arthur Smith presents music, comedy and entertainment from his South London home - plus a special show from the Edinburgh Festival

Welcome to Arthur Smith's 26-bedroom mock-Tudor manor house, in the heart of international Balham. Behind his front door are a plethora of prodigiously talented performers, all ready and eager to entertain. There's jamming in the kitchen, laughter in the lounge and poetry on the landing - and a whole lot more fun and frolics going on upstairs...

Among Arthur's very special house guests are comedians Pippa Evans (as Loretta Maine), Milton Jones, Stephen K Amos, Micky Flanagan, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Andrew Lawrence, Tom Wrigglesworth, Jenny Eclair, Sean Lock and Kevin Eldon. Plus, there's vibrant verse from Benjamin Zephaniah, John Hegley, Elvis McGonagall, John Smallshaw and Kate Fox, and sensational songs and music from Glenn Tilbrook, Alabama 3, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Scouting for Girls, Paloma Faith, Gomez, Nine Below Zero, Katie Melua, Alex Wilson and his salsa combo and Squeeze.

And in Arthur Smith's Edinburgh Bash, Arthur takes the audience on a tour of top-flight music and comedy from the festival's Fringe, including Emo Phillips, Russell Kane and Clanadonia.

Cast and credits
Presented by Arthur Smith
Produced by Sam Michell and Alison Vernon-Smith

Series 1 featuring: Pippa Evans (as Loretta Maine), Paul Sinha, Milton Jones, Glenn Tilbrook, Benjamin Zephaniah, Matt Holness (as Merriman Weir), Stephen K Amos, Nat Luurtsema, Seann Walsh, Micky Flanagan, Alabama 3, Stewart Lee, Reginald D Hunter, Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Series 2 featuring: John Hegley, Barbara Nice, Andrew Lawrence, Scouting For Girls, Paloma Faith, Miles Jupp, Tom Wrigglesworth, Elvis McGonagall, Doc Brown, Gomez, Henry Paker, Richard Herring, Nine Below Zero, Phill Jupitus (as Porky the Poet), Josh Widdecombe, Marlon Davis

Edinburgh Bash featuring: Kate Fox, Emo Phillips, Russell Kane, Clanadonia, Simon Donald

Series 3 featuring: Katie Melua, Roisin Conaty, Alun Cochrane, Nick Helm, Jenny Eclair, Simon Evans, John Smallshaw, Alex Wilson and his salsa combo, Sean Lock, Annette Fagon, Squeeze, Luke Wright, Billy Jenkins, Kevin Eldon, Imran Yusef, Kate Fox

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 7-28 July 2009 (Series 1), 15 April-6 May 2010 (Series 2), 26 August 2010 (Arthur Smith's Edinburgh Bash), 4-25 April 2011 (Series 3)

© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

About Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith, the chairman of A. Smith & Co. Productions, is a pioneering veteran of nonfiction television, known for creating and producing some of the longest-running unscripted series in history, including Hell’s Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior. Smith was honored as one of Variety’s “Titans of Unscripted TV” in 2022, inducted into the Realscreen Awards Hall of Fame in 2021, awarded Broadcasting & Cable’s “Producer of the Year” in 2020, has been nominated for several Emmy Awards, and has received dozens of industry honors and awards. Smith embarked on his career in television as a 22-year-old wunderkind, talking his way into sports production at CBC in his native Canada. He quickly distinguished himself as a rising star at the network, where he produced three Olympic Games among countless other high-profile events. At the age of 28, Smith was named the youngest-ever head of CBC Sports. His successful run at the network ended when American broadcasting icon Dick Clark lured him to Hollywood to develop and produce a wide variety of entertainment programming. Then as the head of programming and production at FOX Sports Net, Smith played an instrumental role in the launch and growth of this massive entity, before the biggest reach of his life—the creation of his eponymous production company that has since thrived for more than twenty years and counting. Smith’s proceeds from this book support the REACH Foundation.


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