The comedy podcast Brian and Roger is moving to BBC Radio 4 with six new episodes airing weekly from 1 April.
The series will broadcast at 11pm each week and introduces the dark comic relationship between two recently divorced men whose friendship is deeply dysfunctional.
A 15 episode “best of” boxset is already available on BBC Sounds, giving new listeners an introduction to the show.
Brian and Roger is created by Harry Peacock and Dan Skinner, who also star in the series. The story unfolds entirely through voice notes exchanged between the characters, allowing listeners to hear the strange and often uncomfortable dynamic between the manipulative Brian and the good natured Roger.
Roger is frequently drawn into Brian’s schemes, creating an unsettling but comic exchange between the pair as their lives unravel following their divorces.
Dan Skinner is widely known for his character Angelos Epithimou, first appearing on the BBC comedy panel show Shooting Stars and later on the stand-up circuit. Harry Peacock is recognised for playing Ray Purchase in Toast of London alongside a range of other comedy roles.
Harry Peacock and Dan Skinner said: “We are as amazed as anyone that this has been commissioned but it’s happening! They’re actually going to let us do it and we look forward to our fun but probably brief relationship with the BBC.”
BBC Radio 4 Commissioning Editor for Comedy, Julia McKenzie, said: “I’m excited, if trepidatious, to bring these disturbed and desperate men to BBC Radio 4. Fans of dark comedy, strap in!”
