''Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up'' is a

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series, written by and starring

Jo Caulfield Jo Caulfield is stand-up comedian, comedy writer, and author from Flintshire, north Wales. She was joint winner of the 2021 Comedians Comedian of The Year – an award voted for by her peers and members of the comedy industry. In 2018 she won ...

, with special guests

Zoe Lyons Zoe Ann Lyons (born 3 October 1971) is a British comedian and TV presenter. Early and personal life Lyons was born to an Irish father and an English mother in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Her family soon moved to Ireland, where she att ...

Simon Greenall Simon James Greenall (born 3 January 1958) is an English actor, presenter and voice artist. Among his television appearances are as the Caretaker on '' Trapped!'', Richard in '' Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married'', and as Michael the Geordie in ...

, and

Nick Revell Nick Revell is a British comedian and writer for radio and television. Born John Revell, he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford. Revell started performing stand-up in 1980 at Comedy Store, where he later became a regular MC, between 1982 and ...

, which first aired on

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in November 2009. The series followed Caulfield's previous series ''It's That Jo Caulfield Again'', which also aired on Radio 4, and involved Caulfield and guests discussing diverse topics such as cheese and onion crisps, the teashops of Dundee, and

Tony Benn Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabine ...

. It was billed as being more acerbic than Radio 4's usual output, and contained moderate swearing and sexual references. The first episode had Paul Sneedon as a special guest, and was recorded live at the

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. The series was produced and directed by David Tyler at

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for

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