"Dead Ringers" Series 2 Part 2: Hit BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series (BBC Radio Collection)

In which case, good.

But just in case it's republished, here's a warning. On the back of the CD case are the words: "MP3-CDs offer the same high-quality sound as standard CDs". Well, with this CD this ain't the case. It's been recorded at such high sound levels that the "S"s distort all over the place, making the thing very irritating to listen to.

And if that weren't bad enough... The cover leads you to believe that the *entire* series 1, 2 and 3 are included. But this isn't the case. You don't get an entire episode running from beginning to end, followed by another etc. What you get are individual, cut sketches, which are cut so badly that very often the beginning of the next sketch can be heard before it's cut off and replaced by a different one. Why they've done it this way God knows.

The CD consists of over 300 individual 1-3 min tracks like this. It sounds like bits and bobs some amateur has recorded off their wireless. Not 'quality'.


Hilarious...   March 6, 2002
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Comedy impressions of politicians and celebrities, ranging from George W. Bush 'You say tomato, I say tomanatu' to Doctor Who 'my dear fellow.' All the impressions could hardly be told from the real thing, and some are so well scripted you could split your sides laughing over them. Often poking fun at important political figures, and even the BBC, all the sketches, even the lesser ones such as their somewhat dodgy Only Fools and Horses one are carried off with great wit, and the quality lasts through the whole series. A great buy.


"laughing improves your health" (well atleast your day)   December 16, 2001
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

A hilarious collection from one of the best radio programmes around. It'll have you in stitches from beginning to end and i have found this is the one comment our entire family agrees on (no mean featwith two teenagers in the house!) If laughing does indeed improve your health you are going to be VERY healthy after listening to this!


Stupendous!   January 10, 2001
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

This is simply superb! The show on Radio 4 has to be one of the best half hours of radio available, and since it is sadly currently off-air, buying this cassette will keep you going until they return with a new series. It is just phenomenal - great wit, not a word out of place, and bitingly funny. If you are a fan of Radio 4, you couldn't ask for anything better...... buy it!


Keeping me sane   January 7, 2001
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Dead Ringers is the latest in the phenomenal radio 4 tradition of hilarious,quintessentially English, humour. Satire, that peculiarly English trait, is embodied in this show, which has so many in-jokes concerning radio 4 that it's hard to keep pace. A mixture of "Dead Ringer" impressions, acute and biting satire and "real humour" involving phone calls to authentic restaurants and taxi firms by people ranging from Dr. Who to William Hague and Dale Winters. First class humour, worth listening to over the Internet, as I am an Ex-Pat, for that elusive animal, the genuinely funny, biting, current affairs program.