EXCLUSIVE: Lolly Adefope (Saltburn) has signed on alongside Fergus Craig, Jessica Fostekew, and Helen Cripps to guide the scripted podcast Dial F For Soccer written by comic Rhys James (Dwell on the Apollo, Mock the Week) for Hold It Mild Media (Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe and Wolf & Owl with Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis).
The pod shall be directed by Mark G Smith and have cameos from names corresponding to Alan Davies, Ed Gamble, James Acaster, Lou Sanders, Ben Bailey-Smith and Phil Wang. Episodes will drop weekly from March 27.
The pod is described as an “audio comedy sequence” that provides listeners a behind-the-scenes take a look at a preferred business sports activities radio station, Totalsport FM. Listeners be part of the present at a time when the station has determined to “modernize” its output by introducing extra “various, dynamic and fascinating expertise,” a call that provokes a response from its conventional listener base. As a part of this try to tug the station into the twenty first century, the station’s hottest double act ‘Des and Pete’ has been cut up as much as make manner for Lisa, a proficient “city” YouTuber.
Synopsis reads: Battling to make her manner in an ultra-masculine atmosphere, Lisa (Adefope) endeavors to show her price to the viewers and her producer Carla (Jessica Fostekew), while additionally coping with condescending remarks from a few of her callers and in-studio company. In the meantime, Des (Fergus Craig) realizes he has to modernize with the station or face the identical penalties as his former associate Pete. Listeners will hear all of the on-air station ‘output’, however they may also hear the whole lot that occurs behind the scenes, having access to the conversations between the hosts and their producers and the whole lot else that occurs within the studio whereas the information and climate are being learn, or when the adverts are being performed. Crucially, they may hear the conversations between the hosts and their producers. This results in a show-within-a-show set-up, with all of the complexity that comes with it; suppose The Larry Sanders Present or Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Issues. It’s an audio sitcom that prioritizes comedy, while additionally tackling problems with racism, sexism, toxicity, and the previous guard struggling to come back to phrases with the brand new era.
Dial F For Soccer was created and produced by Tayo Popoola, an audio producer and presenter who has labored ‘in and round’ sports activities radio for 10 years. The music and sound design had been created by Tom Jenkins, who was sought out particularly as a result of his earlier work on Radio 4’s satirical phone-in comedy sequence Down The Line.
