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The Sofa of Time

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Genre
  
Comedy-drama

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Running time
  
30 minutes

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Starring
  
Nick FrostMatt KingMark HeapJulia DeakinSimon PeggPeter SerafinowiczJoseph Marcell

The Sofa of Time is a BBC Radio 4 fantasy comedy drama written by and starring Nick Frost and Matt King. It was first broadcast in 2002.

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Concept

Milford (King) and Parker (Frost) get sacked from their jobs in a soft furnishings factory in Crouch End. As they are clearing out their lockers, they fall into the magical world of Gravia. Frost described Gravia as a "Tolkien-esque world with supermarkets and banks".

There they meet Marmite the Dwarf (Mark Heap), who believes that Milford is "the chosen one" and has come at last to save the people from the evil emperor warlock Raamen Bod (Peter Serafinowicz), who plans to find the Sofa of Time, the most magical and powerful item of furniture in the entire universe, and use it for evil purposes.

History

The series features Spaced regulars Mark Heap, Julia Deakin, Peter Serafinowicz, and Simon Pegg as well as Kevin Eldon, Daisy Jones and Joseph Marcell. The series was produced by Mario Stylianides, for Talkback.

The BBC offered King and Frost a second series, but they declined as King had moved back to Australia. The series has never been made commercially available. In March 2009 BBC Radio 7 repeated the entire series over six consecutive nights.

Episode list

  • Some sources (e.g. epguides.com) also list the alternative title "A Lovely Day in Tangleton" for episode two.
  • For the 2009 repeat, BBC Radio 7 listed episode one as "There's Gravy in My Locker".
  • Soundtrack

    The soundtrack borrowed heavily from Maurice Jarre's score for Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth

    References

    The Sofa of Time Wikipedia