Boswell’s Lives: BBC Radio 4 comedy drama Audiobook (Free)

Miles Jupp superstars as Wayne Boswell in four fantastic episodes of Jon Canter’s BBC Radio 4 comedy.

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James Boswell, Dr Johnson’s celebrated biographer, converts time traveller to pursue other legends to immortalise within this award-winning humor series. Hampered by his very own pomposity and self-importance, he discovers that his topics get the better of him – with hilarious consequences.

Interviewing Sigmund Freud, Boswell is certainly wrong-footed when Freud asks all the questions, and on meeting Maria Callas (and her poodle) he becomes caught up in an opera of his own making. While talking to Harold Pinter he discovers himself the victim of a bad betrayal, and Boris Johnson proves to be always a formidable opposition – especially over the whiff-whaff table.

Compiled by acclaimed comedy author Jon Canter, this hugely amusing series earned the Prix Europa for Preferred European Radio Group of the entire year. It stars Miles Jupp as Boswell, with Henry Goodman as Freud, Arabella Weir as Callas, Harry Enfield as Pinter and Alistair McGowan as Boris Johnson. Duration: 2 hours approx.