If the sound of Radio 1's early 90s comedy output was
predominantly male - Morris, Lewis-Smith, Lee and Herring etc. - then the
female riposte came in the form of Windbags.
Windbags saw the
comedy pairing of stand-ups Jo Brand and Donna McPhail and ran for two short
series in 1993 and 1994. Tim Worthington describes it as the perfect vehicle
for their "established tongue-in-cheek acerbic view of dumb chauvinist
attitudes an notions of conventional female deportment, and this made for a
hugely entertaining show that strongly appealed to sympathetic listeners".
In this, the series two finale, from 11 July 1994 joining Jo
and Donna are Dawn French, Hattie Hayridge, Sarah Dunant and Sue Carpenter. The
producer is Caroline Leddy. (Incidentally I've no idea why, at intervals, you keep hearing "who turned out the lights" during the first half of this recording).
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