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Death by Mau Mau

Episode 2 of 6

There's a bug going round Spent. Pre-TV dark-com with Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss. From November 1997.

The misfits of the remote northern town are having a fun run - and is there a nasty bug going round?

The first incarnation of the award-winning black comedy, about the "local people" of Spent - before it hit TV.

Starring:

Mark Gatiss
Reece Shearsmith
Steve Pemberton

Written by the cast and Jeremy Dyson.

The League of Gentlemen won a Perrier Edinburgh Festival award in 1997 and this radio series debuted in the same year. They also won a Sony Radio Award. The cult series switched to TV for three series on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 2 from 1999, plus stage shows and a feature film.

Producer: Sarah Smith

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in November 1997.

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