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Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme: The Complete Series 1-4

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Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme: The Complete Series 1-4

By: Tim Key
Narrated by: Tim Key, Tom Basden
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About this listen

Ever wondered just how much of life you can understand through poetry?

Tim Key is never far from stage and screen - from Peep Show to Alpha Papa to Taskmaster. But now he's back doing what he does best - attempting to recite poetry whilst tormenting his friend and musician, the equally brilliant and long-suffering Tom Basden.

From ruminating on the meaning of family via his narrative poem 'The Godfather', attempting to get to the bottom of death via his poem 'The Boy Who Faked His Own Death' and also organising an impromptu stag party, Tim Key uses poetry to help him understand every situation.

Audio updated April 2019.

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Critic reviews

"...you never know when Key will suddenly toss you a fantastic joke or startlingly well-constructed line." (Radio Times)

"In any other sphere apart from comedy, we'd probably class this way of looking at the world as certifiable. Here it feels like genius." (The Telegraph)

"The show...has a kind of artistry and strange beauty that makes it unlike any other hour of stand-up you are likely to see." (The Observer)
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The exchanges between Tim and Tom are on par with the best of Steptoe and Only Fools. Shame Audible can't seem to sort the upload.

Brilliant but incomplete.

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I absolutely love everything about this, except that the last chapter is a repeat. Apart from that it's flawless, surreal and witty humour.

Funniest show on the radio

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I loved Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme on the radio but somehow missed Series 4 when it was broadcast. I was so happy to see the complete collection of episodes on audible to buy. The funny, delicate and often moving poems are interspersed into the hilarious interplay between Tim Key and Tom Basden who provides the musical backdrop to the poetry readings. This collection is almost perfect except that the last two chapters are repeated so an episode from series 4 is missing with another episode being included twice. The Christmas Special episode is also missing so the collection isn't quite complete - hopefully these episodes can be added onto the download - but this is my favourite offering from BBC Radio available on Audible and I think Tim Key is a genius.

Hilarious and often poignant

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Listened in one sitting. This will be added to the collection of go to audio including Mark Watson, Mighty Boosh and 2 Episodes of Mash.

gloriously silly & wonderfly bizarre

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Loved it, vocal performances of the highest calibre and regularly laugh out loud funny material

Brilliant stuff

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