''The Hudson and Pepperdine Show'' is a comedy sketch show vehicle on

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(repeated on

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) for the duo

Melanie Hudson Melanie Hudson is an English actress and comedian. With Vicki Pepperdine, she was part of the double act Hudson and Pepperdine. The two women wrote and starred in BBC Radio 4's ''The Hudson and Pepperdine Show''. Hudson performed multiple roles ...

and

Vicki Pepperdine Vicki Pepperdine (born 1961) is an English comedy actress and writer. She was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for co-writing the BBC sitcom '' Getting On'' (2009–12), and was also nominated for a British Comedy Award for her portrayal of Dr ...

. Four series have been broadcast, in 2000 (4 episodes), 2001 (4 episodes), 2003 (6 episodes) and 2005 (6 episodes, of which 5 were broadcast). They also did a single ''Afternoon Play'' in 2008 titled ''Hudson and Pepperdine Save the Planet''. Other regular cast members include

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, Jim North, and

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. The show has the premise of Hudson and Pepperdine as flatmates who present a radio show from their flat, with comedy deriving from visitors to the flat and the situations in which the duo find themselves. However, the show differs from a sitcom as the interactions of Hudson and Pepperdine simply serve to link together more traditional sketch based material with strands featuring a men's support group; rough neighbourhood girls; Edie Trinder, a pastiche of wartime radio comedy; and their upstairs neighbours, the 'Dirty Sloanes'. The show theme music is a customised version of

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's " Copacabana". The planned first show for the fourth and most recent series, scheduled to be broadcast on 7 July 2005, was pulled due to that day's

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in London as it depicted Mel and Vicki's interaction with the government's emergency warning leaflet.

External links

''The Hudson and Pepperdine Show''
at the BBC Radio 4 website
"Hudson and Pepperdine Save the Planet"
at the BBC Radio 4 website {{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson and Pepperdine Show BBC Radio comedy programmes 2000 radio programme debuts