A brand new four-part character comedy show, Time Of The Week, created by double Funny Women Award winner, Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield launches on BBC Radio 4 at 11.00pm on Saturday 6th July.
Parodying live women’s current affairs and talk shows, the show stars BAFTA award winning actress Sian Clifford, plays self-obsessed host ‘Chloe Slack’ alongside Lorna as multiple characters.
Sian Clifford is a BAFTA-winning, Emmy, SAG and Critics Choice Award nominated actress, best known for her role as ‘Claire’ in the global phenomenon and critically acclaimed Fleabag and winner of numerous prestigious awards.
Presented as a live radio show, with the pressures and battles that brings – each episode contains interviews, location reports and features, as well as panel discussions and voice notes from listeners.
Championing ridiculous ideas and bold new characters, Time Of The Week warps the shows being parodied into surreal and satirical shapes – you’ll hear Chloe speak to the first woman to put her whole forearm into her mouth, an MP campaigning to ban the menopause and a woman who has had so much plastic surgery she now looks like a car.
As well as Sian Clifford, Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield, the series features an ensemble cast including other Funny Women Awards alumni: 2021 Comedy Shorts winner Ada Player and 2017 Stage Award finalist Jodie Mitchell. As well as Jonathan and Lorna, the writing team includes Alice Cockayne, Catherine Brinkworth, Jodie Mitchell, Priya Hall and Will Hughes.
The series is produced by Ben Walker for DLT Entertainment, with executive producers Donald Taffner Jr and Darren Smith. The commissioning editor for BBC Radio 4 is Julia McKenzie, who also commissioned Archive on 4: 20 Years of Funny Women.
Photography by Will Hearle.
