Michael Spicer chose his five favourite sketches for us ahead of his new comedy podcast and it’s a 5-star treat [Video]

The magnificent Michael Spicer has a new Radio 4 sketch podcast coming to BBC Sounds, a 10-part series called Michael Spicer: No Room.

The new show is an ‘entertaining critique of the modern world by a comedian who isn’t really suited to living in it’, brilliantly capturing everything that provokes us – culture, politics, work … and other people.

Bringing his distinctive style of sketch comedy to podcast listeners for the first time, two episodes will drop every week beginning on Wednesday (24 April) – available to subscribe now – before they air on Radio 4 later in the spring.

And to mark the occasion Michael kindly agreed to be our latest guest columnist, choosing his five favourite sketches from his back catalogue and explaining how they came about (and why he chose them).

1. The Unrehearsed Voiceover Artist

‘I made this 13 years ago after realising that the concept of a voiceover artist who never prepared was just a funny idea. I …