Dial M for Pizza [24/11/1987]

Synopsis
British radio sketch show with Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst. Episode 2 includes a three-minute skit on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. ‘Macbash’, a BBC/Beano collaboration, as the fictional radio presenter announces, is part of a series ‘Introducing Literary Classics to the Younger Listener’, the BBC in collaboration with Beano (a classic British comic) presents ‘Macbash’. Opening with the witches indecisive as to whether they should meet in a chip shop, caf or den, it ends with Macduff beating up Macbash with a wacking slipper and the editor’s voice apologetically pronouncing the rest "too horrible to show".
Series
Dial M for Pizza
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Radio
Transmission details
24 Nov 1987 (Channel: BBC Radio 4)

Credits

Producer
Paul Mayhew-Archer
Writer
Ian Brown; James Hendrie
Cast
Brenda BlethynBessie Macbash (Lady Macbeth)
Jonathan Kydd 
Mike Grady 
Robert Bathurst 

Additional Details

Production type
Sitcoms/Variety
Plays
Macbeth
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General
DIAL M FOR PIZZA is a British radio sketch show which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the late 1980s, written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.
History
Episode 2 of the first series was originally broadcast from 17 November - 22 December 1987 on BBC Radio 4. The second series followed in 1988.

Production Company

Name

BBC

Notes
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Archive

Name

British Library Sound Archive

Email
listening@bl.uk
Web
http://www.bl.uk/nsa External site opens in new window
Phone
020 7412 7676
Fax
020 7412 7441
Address
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Dial M for Pizza [24/11/1987]". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av67471 (Accessed 06 Oct 2024)