Daring to be different

At last a late-night ‘comedy’ show on Radio Four that sounds a bit different.

At last a late-night ‘comedy’ show on Radio Four that sounds a bit different. Bill Dare and his team of writers have been taking us on Tuesdays at 11 into their Secret World (Radio Four). It’s a universe in which you might find Peter Mandelson believing that he can fly (‘He may not be barking, but he’s on the A13 going east’), Tony Blair in therapy with Sir Alan Sugar, or Bob Geldof trying to explain to his daughter Pixie what charity actually means. On paper, in black and white, it’s going to sound really silly, but at the end of a long day, when you’re too tired to read but you just need something to take your mind off all the things, major and minor, that have gone wrong, it’s a sharp, slick half-hour of pure radio, leading the imagination by the ear.