Owen Sweeney
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248 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Owen Sweeney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They never mention anything else.
Um but what's really interesting, they're a phenomenal time capsule for anybody who wants to study kind of society broadcasting, how how stories are told back to audiences and and what they tell of the time, and particularly between the late and mid to late seventies and the mid eighties.
And British sitcoms tell you so much.
If you if you're curious as to why the Brits are the way they are, or why, you know, with society kind of you know th the the s male midlife crisis, it's a troop.
Yeah.
Exactly.
The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin, which is on this Tuesday on BBC Four.
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Is is look at it he f the whole premise of this show is that he's gonna fake his own death.
He's so disillusioned with the corporate lifestyle and his life in in a in a you know with just suburbia.
They deal with suburbia.
Um there are so many of these shows that have popped up over the years, and I recommend you watch them all.
They're usually from a male point of view, it has to be said.
But there was the brilliant butterflies, that's turned up as well with Carla Lane and um Wendy Craig and the leader.
Old, I had never even heard about that.
Oh, BBC.
Oh, yeah.
Did you really bring it?
Did you really?
Yes, I did.
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