Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation

Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation was a BBC Radio 4 series of comedy lectures hosted by Jeremy Hardy, first broadcast in September 1993. The tenth and final series aired in 2014.

Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
GenreStand Up Comedy
Running time30 minutes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
StarringJeremy Hardy
Gordon Kennedy
Debbie Isitt
Produced byDavid Tyler
Original release30 September 1993 – 8 October 2014
No. of series10
No. of episodes48 + 1 special
WebsiteBBC Website

The lectures were on topics like "How to have a baby", "How to be truly loved", and often included Hardy's personal views on current affairs.

There were a series of sketches and mock interviews carried out with his two guests. Gordon Kennedy and Debbie Isitt were the two main guests, while other guests included Meera Syal, Rebecca Front, Alison Steadman, Stephen Frost, Miranda Richardson and Harriet Walter.

Episode guide

SeriesEpisodeTitleFirst broadcastGuests
11How to Stay Alive for as Long as You Possibly Can30 Sep 1993Debbie Isitt, Stephen Frost
2How to Be Truly Free7 Oct 1993Debbie Isitt, Stephen Frost
3How to Earn Your Place in Heaven14 Oct 1993Debbie Isitt, Stephen Frost
4How to Be an Adult21 Oct 1993Debbie Isitt, Stephen Frost
5How to Have Sex28 Oct 1993Debbie Isitt, Stephen Frost
6How to Know Your Place4 Nov 1993Debbie Isitt, Stephen Frost
21How to Be a Popular Figure Around Town6 Oct 1994Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
2How to Have a Baby13 Oct 1994Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
3How to Be a Leader of Men20 Oct 1994Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
4How to Be a Father (1)27 Oct 1994Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy, Ben Keaton
5How to Be a Father (2)3 Nov 1994Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
6How to Meet the Challenge of the 21st Century10 Nov 1994Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
31How to Be a Man6 Feb 1997Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
2How to Bear Up Under the Strain13 Feb 1997Meera Syal, Gordon Kennedy
3How to Make Your Presence Felt20 Feb 1997Meera Syal, Gordon Kennedy
4How to Improve Your Mind27 Feb 1997Meera Syal, Gordon Kennedy
5How to Keep Abreast of Developments6 Mar 1997Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
6How to Be Happy13 Mar 1997Caroline Leddy, Gordon Kennedy
41How to Fight Fire with Fire6 Sep 2001Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
2How to Live20 Sep 2001Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
3How to Work27 Sep 2001Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
4How to See Through Others' Eyes4 Oct 2001Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
5How to Hand the World on to the Next Generation11 Oct 2001Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
6When Jeremy Hardy Spoke to the Nation18 Oct 2001Graeme Garden, Debbie Isitt
51How to Be Yourself8 Jan 2003Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
2How to Belong15 Jan 2003Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
3How to Maximise Your Leisure22 Jan 2003Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
4How to Be Young29 Jan 2003Debbie Isitt, Gordon Kennedy
61How to Be Afraid9 Sep 2004Rebecca Front, Gordon Kennedy
2How to Argue Your Position16 Sep 2004Gordon Kennedy, Alison Steadman
3How to Choose23 Sep 2004Gordon Kennedy, Pauline McLynn
4How to Live Life to the Full30 Sep 2004Juliet Stevenson, Gordon Kennedy
Special-Jeremy Hardy's New Year Cavalcade31 Dec 2004Jack Dee, Armando Iannucci, John Oliver
71How to Feel3 Apr 2007Gordon Kennedy, Miranda Richardson
2How to Believe10 Apr 2007Alison Steadman, Ewan Bailey
3How to Die17 Apr 2007Pauline McLynn, Paul B Davies
4How to Look24 Apr 2007Juliet Stevenson, Paul B Davies
81How to Grow Up30 Jun 2010Gordon Kennedy, Rebecca Front
2How To Confront The Vexed Issue Of British Identity Without Getting In The Most Fearful Bate About The Whole Thing7 Jul 2010Gordon Kennedy, Shappi Khorsandi
3How to Have Faith14 Jul 2010Paul B Davies, Pauline McLynn
4How to Communicate Without Showing Off21 Jul 2010Paul B Davies, Morwenna Banks
91How to Exercise Power28 Feb 2013Gordon Kennedy, Katy Brand
2How To Be a Woman in the 21st Century7 Mar 2013Gordon Kennedy, Sara Pascoe
3How To Be a Man in the 21st Century14 Mar 2013Gordon Kennedy, Sue Perkins
4How to Speak21 Mar 2013Pauline McLynn, Paul B Davies
101How to Eat Food17 Sept 2014Paul Bassett Davies, Vicki Pepperdine
2How to Define Oneself in Terms of Regional, Cultural and Geopolitical Identity Without Tears24 Sept 2014Susan Murray, Moray Hunter
3How to Be a Good Citizen01 Oct 2014Gordon Kennedy and Carla Mendonça
4How To Be Better Theologically, Socially, Nationally and in Terms of One's Own Personal Development, Responsibility and Interaction with the Fellow Humans with Whom we Share this Fragile Planet, and Ting08 Oct 2014Paul Bassett Davies and Carla Mendonça

Audio Books

Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation currently has four audio books on sale.

  • How To Be Happy and other shows - Released on 19 July 2004.
  • How To Be Young and other shows - Released on 19 July 2004.
  • How To Be Afraid and other shows - Released on 15 November 2004.
  • How To Live and other shows - Released on 15 November 2004.

In addition the first series was adapted as a book, ISBN 0-413-69250-7, published by Methuen in 1993.

Awards

The show was nominated in 2004 for the Sony Comedy award.[1]

References

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