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Night Class
1st Broadcast 27th August - September 2002 BBC Radio 4
Repeated January 2004 BBC Radio 4
Contents
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Produced By
Above The Title Productions for BBC Radio 4
Synopsis
Episode 1: Johnny is a failed Butlins redcoat who is forced to return to his hometown to work as a night-class pottery tutor.
Episode 2: The night-class students embark on their first pottery assignment with varying degrees of failure, though none can match the horrors of Rebecca's perverse and highly individual creation.
Episode 3: Anne suffers the loss of her beloved dog under her son's taxi and decides to cremate the dog that is. The kiln is then put to an unconventional use, under the sympathetic guidance of pottery teacher Johnny. but some of the class need a little persuasion.
Episode 4: Johnny and his charges leave the confines of the night school for a class outing to a sculpture park. But alcohol and a Ford Transit van containing eight losers are not the happiest of bedfellows.
Episode 5: The examiner is due to pass judgement on the class's unorthodox ceramic offerings, and they are shocked by their results. Meanwhile, in a surprise revelation by the principal, the real reason for Johnny's extended leave from Butlins is revealed.
Cast for all Episodes
Johnny Johnny Vegas
Sandra Rebecca Front
Carol Nicola Stephenson
Paul Tony Pitts
Kieran Tony Burgess
Chloe Lyndsey Marshal
Anne Gwyneth Powell
Nathan Christian Knowles
Ken Adrian Manfredi
Rebecca Fiona Carew
Darren Toby Foster
Production Crew
None currently
Recorded at
North Paddington Boys Club London England
Music composed & Arranged & Performed
Comment by Dirk Maggs
None currently
Running Time
5 episodes 30 minutes per Episode
What some people have said about Night Class
“I’m hooked.”
Gillian Reynolds, DAILY TELEGRAPH
“A very promising new show…the acting is first-rate all round, the use of sound is both clever and evocative at once…keep an ear out for it.”
Nicholas Lezard, Independent ON SUNDAY
“…as strong in its way as Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge.”
Simon Garfield, MAIL ON SUNDAY
“the stuff of real comedy”
EVENING STANDARD
“If slitting your throat at the pointlessness of human existence has never occurred to you, you won’t enjoy this series; but everyone else will.”
Vanora Bennett, THE TIMES
“An inspired, often manic performance from Johnny Vegas and a truly original script – cult listening.”
DAILY MAIL
“This is a darkly hilarious little gem. If you listen to one new radio comedy series this year, you could do a lot worse than Night Class.”
Other Items
A Johnny Vegas site http://www.johnnyvegas.co.uk/index.html
Paul Heaton's website http://www.biscuitboy.co.uk/
BBC News Info on Johnny Vegas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1883306.stm
