The Sunday Format

The Sunday Format

Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	Andrew Marlatt and Tony Roche
Produced by	Paul Schlesinger, Helen Williams.
Original release	() –  ()
Website	bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/sundayformat.shtml

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juxtaposition of sketches, with jokes being set up at the beginning of the episode and the punchline being delivered at a random point before the end. Articles typically hover just above fractional interest also include exotically unrelatable, earnestly spun-out mundanities and wordplay to effectively mock the prolix poorly edited writing style of such publications.

Conception

The show was first heard in 1996 in a one-off pilot episode. It did not return until a four-part series aired in Feb/Mar 1999, followed by six episodes in Nov/Dec 2000, and three additional four-part series in Sep/Oct 2001, Jan 2003 and Jan/Feb 2004. The show has won a

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The show was devised by

also appeared in the earlier series.

See also

• People Like Us
• The Harpoon

External links

• Sunday Format page on Radio 4 site
• h2g2: Sunday Format