Benjamin Partridge (born 1986) is a Welsh comedy writer, performer, actor and producer. He created the Beef And Dairy Network Podcast.[1]
Partridge's professional writing career began when he was awarded the BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary in 2011.[2]
Partridge has written for radio, television and live performance. He writes for the CBBC show Horrible Histories,[3] on BBC Radio Wales he is one of the cast and a co-writer of Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes.[4] Partridge co-writes and produced the second series of Here Be Dragons, which won Bronze at the Radio Academy Awards in 2014. He also devised the BBC Radio 4 panel show It's Your Round.[5] Amongst his further writing credits are The Now Show, The News Quiz, Hypothetical, Small Scenes for BBC Radio 4 and Newsjack for BBC Radio 4 Extra.[6]
In 2013, Partridge performed his one-man show, An Audience With Jeff Goldblum, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[7]
A sitcom that Partridge co-wrote with Gareth Gwynn, Ankle Tag, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
Since July 2015, Partridge has written, presented and produced the Beef And Dairy Network Podcast,[8] which is part of the Maximum Fun podcast network.[9] The podcast is a comedic fictional industry podcast for the beef and dairy industries, described as "surreal bovine-themed comedy" by BBC Radio 4.[10] Six episodes of the podcast were broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April-May 2017, with a further 4 broadcast in 2018.[11] The podcast won the Best Comedy award at the British Podcast Awards in 2017 and 2018.[12]
In 2021 he launched the comedy podcast Three Bean Salad with fellow comedians Mike Wozniak and Henry Paker.[13] In March 2024, it won in the Best Podcast category at the Chortle Awards.[14]
Partridge lives in Wales.