Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting was a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy show written by and starring Linda Smith. It ran for two series of six episodes each from July 2001 until July 2002.
The programme's page on the Radio 4 website says that the show was set in an East London tower block,[2] but details of Chris's building work demonstrate that Linda and Betty lived in neighbouring terraced houses.
Following Smith's death in 2006, Jeremy Hardy revealed that Linda had been working on a third series.
linda, smith, brief, history, timewasting, radio, situation, comedy, show, written, starring, linda, smith, series, episodes, each, from, july, 2001, until, july, 2002, genrecomedyrunning, time30, minutescountry, originunited, kingdomlanguage, englishhome, sta. Linda Smith s A Brief History of Timewasting was a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy show written by and starring Linda Smith It ran for two series of six episodes each from July 2001 until July 2002 Linda Smith s A Brief History of TimewastingGenreComedyRunning time30 minutesCountry of originUnited KingdomLanguage s EnglishHome stationBBC Radio 4StarringLinda Smith Chris Neill Margaret John Femi Elufowoju Jr Written byLinda SmithProduced byLucy Armitage series 1 Jon Rolph series 2 No of series2No of episodes12Opening theme Flowers on the Wall by The Statler BrothersSet in East London where Smith herself lived A Brief History of Timewasting concerned the struggle of a single woman to fill the day helped by her inept sugar loving live in builder Chris Chris Neill morbid elderly neighbour Betty Margaret John and minicab driver Worra Femi Elufowoju Jr Supporting roles were played by Jeremy Hardy and Martin Hyder Many familiar voices from Radio 4 including then chief announcer Peter Donaldson Thought for the Day regular Rabbi Lionel Blue and Woman s Hour stalwart Jenni Murray appeared as themselves 1 The programme s page on the Radio 4 website says that the show was set in an East London tower block 2 but details of Chris s building work demonstrate that Linda and Betty lived in neighbouring terraced houses Following Smith s death in 2006 Jeremy Hardy revealed that Linda had been working on a third series Contents 1 Episodes 1 1 Series 1 1 2 Series 2 2 References 3 Further reading 4 External linksEpisodes EditSeries 1 Edit Episode Original airdate Title1 12 July 2001 The Carpet Sweeper 2 19 July 2001 East End Mafia 3 26 July 2001 Opera Gas and Gardening 4 2 August 2001 A Day Trip to Romney Marsh 5 9 August 2001 Coffins Funerals and Nursing Homes 6 16 August 2001 999 Emergency Series 2 Edit Episode Original airdate Title1 4 June 2002 Fragile Peace 2 11 June 2002 Poltergeist 3 18 June 2002 Museum of East End Life 4 25 June 2002 New Islington 5 2 July 2002 Neighbourhood Watch 6 9 July 2002 The End of Timewasting References Edit A Brief History of Timewasting The Complete Series 1 and 2 Penguin Books Retrieved 9 June 2021 Linda Smith s A Brief History of Timewasting BBC Radio 4 Comedy Retrieved 21 June 2021 Further reading EditLavalie John Linda Smith s A Brief History of Timewasting at epguides Episode Guide at RadioListingsExternal links EditBBC Radio 4 page Modern less informative BBC page Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Linda Smith 27s A Brief History of Timewasting amp oldid 1072034958, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
