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Meet David Sedaris

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Meet David Sedaris
GenreComedy
Running time30 minutes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
StarringDavid Sedaris
Written byDavid Sedaris
Produced bySteve Doherty
Recording studioLondon
Original release2 April 2010 (2010-04-02)
No. of series9
No. of episodes52
Audio formatStereophonic sound

Meet David Sedaris is a BBC Radio 4 radio program featuring American humorist David Sedaris reading new and previously collected stories live before an audience.[1] There have been nine series with the first being broadcast in April 2010.

Each episode runs for thirty minutes with some episodes featuring questions taken from the audience or diary extracts to fill in the time.

Series 8 was recorded at Sedaris's home in Rackham, West Sussex due to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21.

Repeats have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Episodes

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Series 1

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  • Episode 1 Six-to-Eight Black Men; Just a Quick Email
  • Episode 2 Let It Snow; The Cat and the Baboon; Keeping Up
  • Episode 3 Picapocketoni; I'll Eat What He's Wearing
  • Episode 4 Kookabura; With a Pal Like This...

Series 2

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  • Episode 1 The Incomplete Quad (previously unrecorded); The Squirrel and the Chipmunk
  • Episode 2 Me Talk Pretty One Day; It's Catching
  • Episode 3 Nuit of the Living Dead; The End of the Affair
  • Episode 4 Us and Them; selected diary extracts
  • Episode 5 Memento Mori; The Motherless Bear
  • Episode 6 The Ship Shape; Make That a Double

Series 3

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  • Episode 1 Attaboy; In the Waiting Room
  • Episode 2 Author, Author; Front Row Centre with Thaddeus Bristol (previously unrecorded)
  • Episode 3 Memory Lapse, If I Ruled the World
  • Episode 4 Put a Lid on It
  • Episode 5 Easy Tiger, Possession
  • Episode 6 Rubbish, Jesus Shaves

Series 4

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  • Episode 1 The Happy Place (previously unrecorded); The Shadow of Your Smile (previously unrecorded)
  • Episode 2 Repeat After Me
  • Episode 3 #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad
  • Episode 4 Company Man; Diary Extracts (previously unrecorded)
  • Episode 5 English Lesson; Understanding Understanding Owls
  • Episode 6 The Sea Section (previously unrecorded); Dog Days (previously unrecorded)

Series 5

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  • Episode 1 The Understudy; Big Boy (previously unrecorded)
  • Episode 2 Stepping Out (previously unrecorded); The Vigilant Rabbit
  • Episode 3 Leviathan (previously unrecorded)
  • Episode 4 Little Guy; Now Hiring Friendly People; The Ones That Got Away
  • Episode 5 Calypso (previously unrecorded); Follow Me (previously unrecorded)
  • Episode 6 Loggerheads

Series 6

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  • Episode 1 The Perfect Fit; Audience Q&A
  • Episode 2 Of Mice and Men; A Can of Worms
  • Episode 3 Suitable for Framing; Diary Extracts
  • Episode 4 Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?; A Modest Proposal
  • Episode 5 A Number of Reasons I've Been Depressed, Lately; Diary Extracts
  • Episode 6 The Perfect Fit; Audience Q&A

Series 7

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  • Episode 1 Father Time; Diary Extracts
  • Episode 2 The Godfather; Diary Extracts; Audience Q&A
  • Episode 3 The Silent Treatment; Diary Extracts
  • Episode 4 Why Aren’t You Laughing?
  • Episode 5 Active Shooter; Diary Extracts
  • Episode 6 CNN; Boo Hooey; Million Dollar Ideas

Series 8

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  • Episode 1 Instalment 1
  • Episode 2 Instalment 2
  • Episode 3 Instalment 3
  • Episode 4 Instalment 4
  • Episode 5 Instalment 5
  • Episode 6 Instalment 6

Series 9

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  • Episode 1 Happy Go Lucky
  • Episode 2 Fresh Caught Haddock
  • Episode 3 Pussytoes
  • Episode 4 Eat The Rich!
  • Episode 5 My Corona and A Better Place
  • Episode 6 Sweet Land of Liberty

Multimedia

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Series one, two and three were released by Audible as audiobooks on the 23 April 2013.[2][3][4] Series four was made available on the 22 January 2014.[5] The fifth series was published on 30 June 2016.[6] The sixth series was released on the 4 January 2018.[7] The seventh series was released on 5 December 2019.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Meet David Sedaris".
  2. ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series One". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Two". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Three". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Four". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Five". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Six". Amazon. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Meet David Sedaris: Series Seven". Amazon. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
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