A brilliant night of broadcasting nostalgia is promised when Radio Live comes to London’s prestigious Cadogan Hall this month.
The hilarious show will entertain audiences at the historic live music venue for one night only on Wednesday 26 October.
Radio Live brings together a stellar line up of British Radio broadcasting talent headed by songwriter Sir Richard Stilgoe.
He will be joined by multi-talented master of mimicry Alistair McGowan, musician Joe Stilgoe and Radio 4’s Garry Richardson who will all be ready to take their audience on a hilarious romp through the history of the airwaves – along with some very special guests who are yet to be revealed.
The unique evening will include a rich mix of comedy, music, sketches, impressions and amusing anecdotes by the veteran broadcasters who together can boast almost 200 years of radio experience, and whose warm personalities and talent have entertained and enriched millions of lives.
Sir Richard Stilgoe is one of Britain’s most versatile and gifted performers. Born in Surrey and raised in Liverpool, after a year at Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights, he became a cabaret artist in London. He later made his name on BBC’s Nationwide and That’s Life, for which he wrote comic songs, and collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber to write the lyrics for Cats and Starlight Express. He also worked on lyrics for Phantom of the Opera.
His many radio shows include Hamburger Weekend, Used Notes, Stilgoe’s Around and Richard Stilgoe’s Traffic Jam Show. He is also the proud owner of a JCB digger.
Alistair McGowan is an impressionist, comic, actor, writer, pianist and broadcaster. Early success came providing voices for Spitting Image, while he also starred in the first series of Dead Ringers. His own TV show The Big Impression ran for four series.
Internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and songwriter Joe Stilgoe has released eight albums, five of which have reached the top of the UK Jazz chart. The youngest child of Richard Stilgoe and opera singer Annabel Hunt, he is recognised as one of the best singer-pianists in the world. His latest album Stilgoe in the Shed came about after he started broadcasting on YouTube from his shed during the Covid lockdown.
And Garry Richardson has been a broadcaster for almost half a century. He has a fund of hilarious stories, having interviewed some of the world’s most famous people.
Sir Richard Stilgoe says: “It’s an evening of watching the radio.
“Radio Live is anybody who has ever been on the radio because we have Alistair McGowan, and he can do all of them!
“It has my son Joe Stilgoe, who is better than his dad, and it has Garry Richardson stringing the whole thing together. And I might sing the odd song – because all my songs are odd!
“It will be a lot of fun.”
