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This summer, ChrisC went off to the Fringe in Edinburgh while I went to Whitby. Despite properly packing in the shows for five days, he still managed to miss a few things he wanted to see and we are slowly hoovering them up as they come to London.

At least, that was the plan. And it worked for me. ChrisC decided instead to be ill, and for two out of three I had to draft in an emergency replacement. (Thanks to Ebee, who heroically threw herself into the breach despite me being completely unable to tell her anything about the shows whatsoever.)

( Ahir Shah @ Soho Theatre (Downstairs) )

( Mae Martin @ Soho Theatre (Downstairs) )

( Dolly Would @ Camden People's Theatre )

Right. This post has been a month in the writing, so is hideously out of date. It's also hideously long, being mostly for my future-self's reference. You have been warned :)

( The Shows I Saw At The Fringe )

Oh that explains it. I've been struggling for some time to work out why I'd heard of Benedict Cumberbatch (surely the most unwieldy name in showbiz) prior to his playing Sherlock. IMDB didn't really offer any clues. Anyway, it turns out he played the rather inept Captain Martin Crief in Cabin Pressure

Cabin Pressure is a ( Grade II radio 4 comedy )

A quick advert...

Yesterday, I waddled off to visit Auntie and hear The Now Show recorded. If the live performance was anything to go by, the broadcast will be very funny indeed: it goes out tonight at half six on Radio 4. If you've not heard it before, it's basically 30 minutes of topical satire and silliness from Punt & Dennis, with sundry assistants and guest-ranting by Marcus Brigstocke.

I don't know how the show will have been edited, but I imagine quite a large chunk will be taken up with them talking about (by which I mean "ripping the piss out of") Bonekickers. And they barely mentioned Max Mosley; I'm sick of him already.