Chris Morris retrospective set for BBC Radio 4 Extra

Feature by News Team | 13 Oct 2014

The BBC are to broadcast a three-hour tribute programme devoted to the radio work of satirist and director Chris Morris.

'Raw Meat Radio' will look back at Morris’ radio career, with rarely-heard archive material set to form a large part of the programme. The new programme follows successful repeats of Morris’ surreal and disturbing radio comedy Blue Jam earlier this year.

Mary Anne Hobbs will provide voiceover for the show, according to Chortle, with contributions expected from Armando Iannucci and Morris’ biographer Lucian Randall among others.

Morris is best known for his work on spoof news programmes The Day Today and Brass Eye, during which he lured a host of celebrities into backing increasingly bizarre public awareness campaigns. Behind the camera, Morris co-wrote the Channel 4 media satire Nathan Barley alongside Charlie Brooker, and wrote and directed the 2010 film Four Lions, a dark comedy about a group of incompetent British jihadis.

More recently, Morris conducted the ‘behind-the-scenes’ interviews for the latest series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle on BBC Two.

'Raw Meat Radio' is on at 7pm on 29 Nov on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Some of Morris' best radio moments:

“Let’s look at the meat and spunk of the show” – Morris interviews Jerry Springer

Morris goes in the huff at ‘people on the bus’, cancels the news 

Morris hits the phones, looking for “Franco”