1st Broadcast 27th August - September 2002 BBC Radio 4
Repeated January 2004 BBC Radio 4
Dirk Maggs
Bruce Hyman
Helen Chattwell
Johnny Vegas
Tony Burgess
Tony Pitts
Mike Stott and Bruce Hyman
Above The Title Productions for BBC Radio 4
Episode 1
Johnny is a failed Butlins redcoat who is forced to return to his home town to work as a night-class pottery tutor.
Episode 2
The night-class students embark on their first pottery assignment with varing degrees of failure, though none can match the horrors of Rebecca's perverse and highly individual creation.
Episode 3
Anne suffers the loss of her beloved dog under her son's taxi and decides to cremate the dog that is. The kiln is then put to an unconventional use, under the sympathetic guidance of pottery teacher Johnny. but some of the class need a little persuasion.
Episode 4
Johnny and his charges leave the confines of the night school for a class outing to a sculpture park. But alcohol and a Ford Transit van containing eight losers are not the happiest of bedfellows.
Episode 5
The examiner is due to pass judgement on the class's unorthodox ceramic offerings and they are shocked by their results. Meanwhile, in a surprise revelation by the principal, the real reason for Johnny's extended leave from Butlins is revealed.
| Character |
Actor |
| Johnny | Johnny Vegas |
| Sandra | Rebecca Front |
| Carol | Nicola Stephenson |
| Paul | Tony Pitts |
| Kieran | Tony Burgess |
| Chloe | Lyndsey Marshall |
| Anne | Gwyneth Powell |
| Nathan | Christian Knowles |
| Ken | Adrian Manfredi |
| Rebecca | Fiona Carew |
| Darren | Toby Foster |
None at this time
North Paddington Boys Club London England
Paul Heaton
Tony Robinson
None at this time
5 episodes 30 minutes per Episode
Johnny Vegas
Night Class Cast
“I’m hooked.”
Gillian Reynolds, DAILY TELEGRAPH
“A very promising new show…the acting is first-rate all round, the use of sound
is both clever and evocative at once…keep an ear out for it.”
Nicholas Lezard, Independent ON SUNDAY
“…as strong in its way as Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge.”
Simon Garfield, MAIL ON SUNDAY
“the stuff of real comedy”
EVENING STANDARD
“If slitting your throat at the pointlessness of human
existence has never occurred to you, you won’t enjoy this series; but everyone
else will.”
Vanora Bennett, THE
TIMES
“An inspired, often manic performance from Johnny Vegas
and a truly original script – cult listening.”
DAILY MAIL
“This is a darkly hilarious little gem. If you listen
to one new radio comedy series this year, you could do a lot worse than Night
Class.”
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