''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 role ...

and Vicki Pepperdine. 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 Martin Hyder, Jim North, and Dave Lamb. 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

Barry Manilow Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", " Somewhere Down the Road", " Mandy", "I Write the Songs", " Can ...

'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 terrorist attacks 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