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On The Hour

Transmission Information

Series 1 (x5):
Friday 9th August 1991 - Friday 13th September 1991
BBC Radio 4
11:00pm to 11:25pm

Christmas Special:
Wednesday 25th December 1991
BBC Radio 4
10:30am to 11:00am

Series 2 (x6):
Thursday 23rd April 1992 - Thursday 28th May 1992
BBC Radio 4
6:30pm to 7:00pm

Summary

When Armando Iannucci, the producer of Radio 1's cutting edge comedy series “The Mary Whitehouse Experience”, heard Chris Morris reading out some of his ridiculous but also faintly plausible mock news stories on GLR, he contacted Morris to suggest that they should collaborate on a series. The result was “On The Hour”, a slick parody of current affairs broadcasting, that shoehorned Morris' surreal stories and interviews into an alarmingly convincing pastiche news presentation style, attacking everything from war reporting to the BBC's time signal along the way. Morris presented the show, in addition to writing it in conjunction with Iannucci, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, David Quantick, Steven Wells and Andrew Glover, and acting as associate producer. “On The Hour” was without question a groundbreaking landmark in radio comedy, and went on to win several awards including the 1992 Writer's Guild award for Best Comedy. Twelve episodes were made between 1991 and 1992, as well as a short special for Radio 1.

A full CD release in two editions will be out on 24th November 2008 featuring all broadcasted episodes, the unbroadcast pilot and bonus extras including the Select Flexi and Alan Partridge improvisations - selected rushes off of an old DAT that had been unearthed.

Episode Guides

On The Hour - Pilot (Unbroadcast)

Series 1 (1991)
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5

On The Hour - Christmas Special (1991)

Series 2 (1992)
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6

On The Hour - The Best Of On The Hour (1992)

On The Hour - Cassette (1992)

On The Hour - 1 FM Newsbanger (1992)

Press Articles

1992-06-11 - The Guardian - Victor Lewis-Smith v Chris Morris - Feuds corner
1993-04-26 - The Guardian - Special Report on Radio: Funny old business - Radio breeds them, TV steals 'em.
1994-03-06 - Sunday Times - Pair of jokers; Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci

Awards

1992 - British Comedy Award for Best Radio Comedy (watch the presentation to Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci here)
1992 - Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Comedy/Light Entertainment.

Trivia

The original length of all Series 2 programmes was 30m. However, edits were make for a repeat run in July/August 1992, chopping 2 minutes out of each programme. Furthermore, these edits were made to the master tapes (although it seems that the edited sections were added back on to the end of the masters), resulting in the edits being used for the BBC 7 repeat runs.

Pictures

Links

Official On The Hour CD website - clips, info, etc.
Wikipedia entry
Radiolistings.co.uk entry
BBC Comedy Guide Entry
On The Hour official MySpace page