Meet David Sedaris Explained
| Show Name: | Meet David Sedaris |
| Format: | Comedy |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Home Station: | BBC Radio 4 |
| Starring: | David Sedaris |
| Producer: | Steve Doherty |
| Record Location: | London |
| Num Series: | 9 |
| Num Episodes: | 52 |
| Audio Format: | Stereophonic sound |
Meet David Sedaris is a BBC Radio 4 radio program featuring American humorist David Sedaris reading new and previously collected stories live before an audience.[1] There have been nine series with the first being broadcast in April 2010.
Each episode runs for thirty minutes with some episodes featuring questions taken from the audience or diary extracts to fill in the time.
Series 8 was recorded at Sedaris's home in Rackham, West Sussex due to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21.
Repeats have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Episodes
Series 1
- Episode 1 Six-to-Eight Black Men; Just a Quick Email
- Episode 2 Let It Snow; The Cat and the Baboon; Keeping Up
- Episode 3 Picapocketoni; I'll Eat What He's Wearing
- Episode 4 Kookabura; With a Pal Like This...
Series 2
- Episode 1 The Incomplete Quad (previously unrecorded); The Squirrel and the Chipmunk
- Episode 2 Me Talk Pretty One Day; It's Catching
- Episode 3 Nuit of the Living Dead; The End of the Affair
- Episode 4 Us and Them; selected diary extracts
- Episode 5 Memento Mori; The Motherless Bear
- Episode 6 The Ship Shape; Make That a Double
Series 3
- Episode 1 Attaboy; In the Waiting Room
- Episode 2 Author, Author; Front Row Centre with Thaddeus Bristol (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 3 Memory Lapse, If I Ruled the World
- Episode 4 Put a Lid on It
- Episode 5 Easy Tiger, Possession
- Episode 6 Rubbish, Jesus Shaves
Series 4
- Episode 1 The Happy Place (previously unrecorded); The Shadow of Your Smile (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 2 Repeat After Me
- Episode 3 #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad
- Episode 4 Company Man; Diary Extracts (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 5 English Lesson; Understanding Understanding Owls
- Episode 6 The Sea Section (previously unrecorded); Dog Days (previously unrecorded)
Series 5
- Episode 1 The Understudy; Big Boy (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 2 Stepping Out (previously unrecorded); The Vigilant Rabbit
- Episode 3 Leviathan (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 4 Little Guy; Now Hiring Friendly People; The Ones That Got Away
- Episode 5 Calypso (previously unrecorded); Follow Me (previously unrecorded)
- Episode 6 Loggerheads
Series 6
- Episode 1 The Perfect Fit; Audience Q&A
- Episode 2 Of Mice and Men; A Can of Worms
- Episode 3 Suitable for Framing; Diary Extracts
- Episode 4 Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?; A Modest Proposal
- Episode 5 A Number of Reasons I've Been Depressed, Lately; Diary Extracts
- Episode 6 The Perfect Fit; Audience Q&A
Series 7
- Episode 1 Father Time; Diary Extracts
- Episode 2 The Godfather; Diary Extracts; Audience Q&A
- Episode 3 The Silent Treatment; Diary Extracts
- Episode 4 Why Aren’t You Laughing?
- Episode 5 Active Shooter; Diary Extracts
- Episode 6 CNN; Boo Hooey; Million Dollar Ideas
Series 8
- Episode 1 Instalment 1
- Episode 2 Instalment 2
- Episode 3 Instalment 3
- Episode 4 Instalment 4
- Episode 5 Instalment 5
- Episode 6 Instalment 6
Series 9
- Episode 1 Happy Go Lucky
- Episode 2 Fresh Caught Haddock
- Episode 3 Pussytoes
- Episode 4 Eat The Rich!
- Episode 5 My Corona and A Better Place
- Episode 6 Sweet Land of Liberty
Multimedia
Series one, two and three were released by Audible as audiobooks on the 23 April 2013.[2] [3] [4] Series four was made available on the 22 January 2014.[5] The fifth series was published on 30 June 2016.[6] The sixth series was released on the 4 January 2018.[7] The seventh series was released on 5 December 2019.[8]
Notes and References
- Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Meet David Sedaris.
- Web site: Meet David Sedaris: Series One . Amazon . 3 June 2019.
- Web site: Meet David Sedaris: Series Two . Amazon . 3 June 2019.
- Web site: Meet David Sedaris: Series Three . Amazon . 3 June 2019.
- Web site: Meet David Sedaris: Series Four . Amazon . 3 June 2019.
- Web site: Meet David Sedaris: Series Five . Amazon . 3 June 2019.
- Web site: Meet David Sedaris: Series Six . Amazon . 3 June 2019.
- Web site: Meet David Sedaris: Series Seven . Amazon . 4 December 2019.
