The Sofa of Time

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The Sofa of Time
Nick Frost and Matt King
Genre	Comedy-drama
Running time	30 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	English
Home station	BBC Radio 4
Starring	Nick Frost Matt King Mark Heap Julia Deakin Simon Pegg Peter Serafinowicz
Creators	Nick Frost Matt King
Writers	Nick Frost Matt King
Air dates	October 24, 2002 to November 28, 2002
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Audio format	Stereophonic sound
Website BBC website

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

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 Gravy. Frost described Gravy as an "Tolkien-esque world with supermarkets and banks".^[1]

There they meet Marmite the Dwarf, (Mark Heap), who believes that Milford is "the chosen one", who 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.

The series featured 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 during the recording of the series the two fell out and vowed never to work together again.^[2] The series has never been made commercially available.

[edit] Episode list

Episode	Title	First broadcast
1	There's a World in My Locker	24 October 2002
2	Where The Brave Go Shopping	31 October 2002
3	And the Hackett March on...	7 November 2002
4	Captain Chapel and the Crabs	14 November 2002
5	Night of the Sexicle	21 November 2002
6	Here Comes Bod	28 November 2002