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Meet David Sedaris is a BBC Radio 4 radio program featuring American humorist David Sedaris reading new and previously collected stories live before an audience.[1] There have been nine series with the first being broadcast in April 2010.
Genre | Comedy |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
Starring | David Sedaris |
Written by | David Sedaris |
Produced by | Steve Doherty |
Recording studio | London |
Original release | 2 April 2010 |
No. of series | 9 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
Each episode runs for thirty minutes with some episodes featuring questions taken from the audience or diary extracts to fill in the time.
Series 8 was recorded at Sedaris's home in Rackham, West Sussex due to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21.
Repeats have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Episodes edit
Series 1 edit
- Episode 1 Six-to-Eight Black Men; Just a Quick Email
- Episode 2 Let It Snow; The Cat and the Baboon; Keeping Up
- Episode 3 Picapocketoni; I'll Eat What He's Wearing
- Episode 4 Kookabura; With a Pal Like This...
Series 2 edit
- Episode 1 The Incomplete Quad (previously unrecorded); The Squirrel and the Chipmunk
- Episode 2 Me Talk Pretty One Day; It's Catching
- Episode 3 Nuit of the Living Dead; The End of the Affair
- Episode 4 Us and Them; selected diary extracts
- Episode 5 Memento Mori; The Motherless Bear
- Episode 6 The Ship Shape; Make That a Double
Series 3 edit
- Episode 1 Attaboy; In the Waiting Room
- Episode 2 Author, Author; Front Row Centre with Thaddeus Bristol (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 3 Memory Lapse, If I Ruled the World
- Episode 4 Put a Lid on It
- Episode 5 Easy Tiger, Possession
- Episode 6 Rubbish, Jesus Shaves
Series 4 edit
- Episode 1 The Happy Place (previously unrecorded); The Shadow of Your Smile (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 2 Repeat After Me
- Episode 3 #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad
- Episode 4 Company Man; Diary Extracts (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 5 English Lesson; Understanding Understanding Owls
- Episode 6 The Sea Section (previously unrecorded); Dog Days (previously unrecorded)
Series 5 edit
- Episode 1 The Understudy; Big Boy (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 2 Stepping Out (previously unrecorded); The Vigilant Rabbit
- Episode 3 Leviathan (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 4 Little Guy; Now Hiring Friendly People; The Ones That Got Away
- Episode 5 Calypso (previously unrecorded); Follow Me (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 6 Loggerheads
Series 6 edit
- Episode 1 The Perfect Fit; Audience Q&A
- Episode 2 Of Mice and Men; A Can of Worms
- Episode 3 Suitable for Framing; Diary Extracts
- Episode 4 Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?; A Modest Proposal
- Episode 5 A Number of Reasons I've Been Depressed, Lately; Diary Extracts
- Episode 6 The Perfect Fit; Audience Q&A
Series 7 edit
- Episode 1 Father Time; Diary Extracts
- Episode 2 The Godfather; Diary Extracts; Audience Q&A
- Episode 3 The Silent Treatment; Diary Extracts
- Episode 4 Why Aren’t You Laughing?
- Episode 5 Active Shooter; Diary Extracts
- Episode 6 CNN; Boo Hooey; Million Dollar Ideas
Series 8 edit
- Episode 1 Instalment 1
- Episode 2 Instalment 2
- Episode 3 Instalment 3
- Episode 4 Instalment 4
- Episode 5 Instalment 5
- Episode 6 Instalment 6
Series 9 edit
- Episode 1 Happy Go Lucky
- Episode 2 Fresh Caught Haddock
- Episode 3 Pussytoes
- Episode 4 Eat The Rich!
- Episode 5 My Corona and A Better Place
- Episode 6 Sweet Land of Liberty
Multimedia edit
Series one, two and three were released by Audible as audiobooks on the 23 April 2013.[2][3][4] Series four was made available on the 22 January 2014.[5] The fifth series was published on 30 June 2016.[6] The sixth series was released on the 4 January 2018.[7] The seventh series was released on 5 December 2019.[8]
References edit
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Meet David Sedaris".
- ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series One". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Two". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Three". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Four". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Five". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Six". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Seven". Amazon. Retrieved 4 December 2019.