Slime, from Children's author David Walliams.WELCOME TO THE ISLE OF MULCH…This little island is home to a large number of horrible grown-ups. The school, the local park, the toy shop and even the island’s ice-cream van are all run by awful adults who like nothing more than making children miserable. And the island is owned by the most awful one of all – Aunt Greta Greed!Something needs to be done about them.But who could be brave enough?Meet Ned – an...

The hilarious mishaps and adventures of Opera Sunderland, starring Godfrey JamesStaging opera can be a chaotic business – as this brilliant five-part comedy drama, written by Fintan Coyle and Tom Miles, shows. Opera Sunderland has a tradition of performing a new work every season - celebrating "its umbilical cord to civilisation". However, when managing director, Dwight Gaggenheim opts for West Side Story over innovative gay opera St Sebastien, th...

Both series of the surreal sketch show, set in a parallel universe just like ours, but different‘A hoot’ The IndependentWelcome to Radio 9 – the only station providing ‘real radio for real listeners with real radios’. It’s the irrational home of the terminally strange, where the dark and the silly rub along together quite nicely. There’s a wealth of anarchic programming on offer, from parodic plays, investigative reports and reality shows to spoof ...

All 12 episodes of the fun-packed 1980s sketch showEver since that first primordial fireball exploded in the void countless aeons ago, people have been doing comic sketches on the radio. And this is no exception.These two mouth-watering series feature a whole host of tasty takeaway skits and shenanigans, from 'The Man At Parties No-One Wants To Talk To' and 'Britain's Stupidest Postman' to sauna novices, the perfect Proms punter and Batman in his dotage. Ot...