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Other names | KMKYWAP |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | English |
Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
Starring | Steve Coogan Rebecca Front Patrick Marber David Schneider Doon Mackichan |
Writers | Steve Coogan Patrick Marber |
Producers | Armando Iannucci |
Air dates | 1 December 1992 to 5 January 1993 |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Audio format | Stereo |
Opening theme | "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by the Steve Brown Band |
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (also known as Knowing Me Knowing You) is a BBC Radio 4 series of six episodes (beginning 1 December 1992). It is named after the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by ABBA (Alan Partridge's favourite band), which was used as the show's title music.
Steve Coogan played the incompetent but self-satisfied Norwich-based host, Alan Partridge. Alan was a spin-off character from the spoof radio show On the Hour (which later transferred to TV as The Day Today).
Transmission date | Rebecca Front | David Schneider | Patrick Marber | Doon Mackichan | Other guests | Notes | |
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1 | 1 December 1992 | Ally Tennant, feminist and therapist | Peter, therapy patient; "Vegina" voice-actor | Adam Wells, Sixties figure and businessman; Lawrence Camley, highbrow novelist | Linda, therapy patient | ||
2 | 8 December 1992 | Janey Katz, hypnotherapist | Simon Fisher's father, John | Nick Ford, "queer" lawyer | Simon Fisher, child prodigy | ||
3 | 15 December 1992 | Shirley Dee, showbiz Cockney | Chris Lester, former hostage | Michel Lambert, racing driver; Phil Collins, Lester's fellow hostage | |||
4 | 22 December 1992 | The Duchess of Stranraer, member of the royal family | Matt Bradley, gigolo | Steve Thompson, impressionist and comedian; Craig Bradley, gigolo | Sandra Peaks, Junior Minister for Housing | ||
5 | 29 December 1992 | Sally Hoff, actress/singer | Bernie Rosen, Jewish comedian | Conrad Knight, actor and Sally's husband; Jack 'the Black Cat' Calson, professional gambler | Kendall Ball, Supermodel and episode co-host | "Live from Las Vegas" | |
6 | 5 January 1993 | Yvonne Boyd, fashion designer | Tony Hayers, Commissioning Director of BBC Television | Lord Morgan of Glossop, irascible peer | Trudy Sky, host of The Show on Def Two | ||
7 | 3 July 1993 | Documentary-style programme called Knowing Knowing Me, Knowing You |
Several characters from the radio series are similar to ones used in the TV series; several jokes are even reused. Doon MacKichan's character Kendall Ball did not make it into the eventual TV series but did appear in The Day Today, made between the two incarnations.
Radio | TV |
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Bernie Rosen | Joe Beasley |
Tony Hayers | Tony Hayers |
Sally Hoff | Tania Beaumont |
Conrad Knight | Gary Barker |
Lord Morgan of Glossop | Forbes McAllister |
Yvonne Boyd | Yvonne Boyd |
Janey Katz | Tony LeMesmer |