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Title: John Finnemore's Double Acts

Media: radio comedy anthology

Approx. length: 12 half-hour episodes, 6h in total

Where to find it: Audible, Amazon, you can order it as a CD box set…

What is it, in summary?: a comedic radio series penned by John Finnemore (probably best known for Cabin Pressure), each episode featuring only two main characters, played by two new actors each time. In the first season, all individual stories are (very loosely) interconnected, in the second season this is no longer the case. From a psychologist teaching a businessman to imagine tigers, over an old woman giving a con man a lift, or Queen Victoria letting a recording of her voice be made, to the intricacies of British-Danish diplomacy… this series has it all!

What do you love about it?: Finnemore is just brilliant at writing radio comedy, and there are some truly amazing comedic actors involved in this, too. Each episode introduces you to new characters, and by the end of the episode you’re guaranteed to love them dearly (or sometimes love to hate them) - many episodes are also built up very cleverly, where the full extent of the situation only gradually starts unravelling the longer you listen. And if you don’t like one episode’s setting or characters, the next one will be about something entirely different!

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: most likely an extension of the Penguin Diplomacy episode, featuring a Danish eccentric and a British governor who meet on a windswept little island rather close to the antarctic in 1948, and develop a strange, heartfelt friendship over chess, divorcing penguins, and international power struggles. The ship potential is obvious, and I love how the two communicate (or fail to communicate), so something post-canon, a missing scene, or anything else with similar vibes between these characters - perhaps an AU transferring their circumstances into a different context? Modern AU? Scifi AU? - would be delightful to me.

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: Obviously, to fulfil my request, only listening to Penguin Diplomacy would be entirely sufficient. (I have also only nominated those two characters, please let me know if you would like someone else to be added.) Beyond that, I recommend English for Pony-Lovers and The Goliath Window, which are my personal top 3 episodes of the show together with Penguin Diplomacy.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): nothing substantial. One episode briefly references homophobic attitudes (The Rebel Alliance), Penguin Diplomacy very briefly and indirectly hints at war trauma, and The Goliath Window references amputation of a limb while at sea (and possibly unknowingly eating it), but it’s all very blink-and-you-miss-it.