Peacefully in their Sleeps

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Peacefully in Their Sleeps
Genre	Comedy
Running time	30 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	English
Home station	BBC Radio 4
Starring	Geoff McGivern
Writers	Chris Chantler and Howard Read
Producers	Colin Anderson
Air dates	8 August 2007 to 12 September 2007
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Website Website at BBC Radio 4

Peacefully in Their Sleeps is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series written by Chris Chantler and Howard Read. Paying tribute to fictional celebrities, it lampoons postwar popular culture using fake archive footage and interviews. Six episodes were produced, and aired from July until September 2007.

Each episode memorialises a different fictional celebrity, with guest stars including Marcus Brigstocke, Elizabeth Spriggs, Richard Briers, Jeffrey Holland, Paul Putner, Phyllida Law and Dan Antopolski. Geoff McGivern plays the programme's presenter Roydon Postlethwaite.