Count Arthur Strong’s BBC Radio 4 Series

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! hit the airways of BBC Radio 4 in late December 2005 to huge critical acclaim.

'Brilliant comic creation, I laughed until it hurt' - Radio Times

Radio Choice - Telegraph
Best Entertainment - Daily Mail
Critics Choice - Independent on Sunday
Pick of the Day - Sunday Times Culture
Radio Choice - The Observer
Best Radio for Christmas - Mail on Sunday

The series hears a confused and muddled 'day in the life' of the one time Variety Star, Count Arthur Strong.

The series was commissioned following a string of star guest appearances on BBC Radio 2's Mark Radcliffe Show by Count Arthur Strong. A Komedia Entertainment and Smooth Operations production, the shows are actually produced by Mark Radcliffe himself. There have now been four series recorded at Komedia Brighton, Komedia Bath and the Manchester Dancehouse, and aired on BBC Radio 4. Previously, one episode of the series was also recorded in Edinburgh during the Festival Fringe. The series' CD box-sets can now be purchased from this website.

A seventh series of 'Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!' is to be recorded in the Autumn of 2011 and Spring 2012 in Manchester and Brighton (click here for ticket info). This will be broadcast from March 2012 on BBC Radio 4.

Alongside his live stage-shows and SONY Award winning moments, Count Arthur has also produced a TV Pilot of 'Count Arthur Strong's Entertainment Game', recorded in the summer of 2010, and is subsequently developing a sitcom for BBC2 co-written with Graham Linehan.

Arthur on the BBC 2

'Don't say I don't treat you for Christmas', Mark Radcliffe announced to his BBC Radio 2 listeners as he introduced his star guest in December 2004.

That's right everybody, it was I, Count Arthur Strong, he was on about that evening in question, when I had the very great pleasure of joining young Mark for the duration of his evening show of his he does. Oh! It was a wonderful night as I shared stories from my past and, by public demand, treated the listeners to some of my old variety acts I used to do in the 'heyday' of the variety theatre. I even chatted to one or two lucky callers, (their words, not mine), as they recalled their childhood memories of me and I done their horrorscopes for them as a thank you. I had such a good time I told Mark I'd be coming back again, and again, which, as you can imagine, he was highly delighted about.

Now Mark Radcliffe appears to have left his late evening show on the BBC, I noticed the third time I was sat in a studio alone by myself in Manchester. When I find out where he has gone to I will let somebody know.