Frank Skinner

Saturdays from 8am.

The Frank Skinner Show
Join comedian Frank Skinner every Saturday morning from 8.

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Award-winning comic Frank Skinner kicks off the weekend line-up from 8am. Join him and his co-presenters Emily and Gareth for a hilarious show of chat, special guests and, of course, real music.

Frank performed his first stand-up gig in December 1987 and, only four years later, went on to win the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival. During the mid 90’s Frank sold-out two massive UK tours, the second of which, in 1997, closed to a world record breaking packed house at London’s Battersea Power Station. He also established himself as a leading name in television entertainment, going on to star in a succession of smash hit comedy shows, including Fantasy Football, The Frank Skinner Show, and Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned.

Frank Skinner's prolific career to date has also seen him attain three number one hits with the football anthem ‘Three Lions’, alongside David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds; star in the hit West End show Art in 1999; and publish his first book, Frank Skinner, which became the top selling entertainment autobiography of 2002, with a total of 46 weeks spent in The Sunday Times Bestsellers list. In 2006, Frank went on to create an online sensation with over one million downloads of Baddiel and Skinner’s World Cup Podcasts and learnt to play the banjo as part of BBC One’s Play It Again series.

In a busy year for the comic, 2009 has already seen Frank release in paperback his second, critically acclaimed book, Frank Skinner On the Road. The Richard and Judy Book Club Award-winning autobiography, Frank Skinner On the Road, offers a staggeringly honest insight into the life and mind of a stand up comedian. The Daily Telegraph described it as a book "…which distinguishes itself by being a) unusual, b) funny, and c) actually written by the person named on the cover… I cannot recall a book that so entertainingly lays bare the neediness, self-consciousness and weirdness of the professional comic's life."

This is in addition to launching a London-based residency of Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret, a sell-out show which offers Londoners respite from recession doom-and-gloom by giving them the chance to experience a variety of award-winning acts for just £10 a ticket. The show, which has currently transferred to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a limited 20-date run, will return to The Lyric Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue, for its third extension – a 10-week Monday run starting 12th October.

Listen again and podcast
Hear Frank’s exclusive midweek podcast plus the best of the Saturday show.