Benjamin Partridge

Benjamin Partridge
Born 1986 (age 31–32)
Nationality Welsh
Occupation Comedy writer and performer

Benjamin Partridge (born 1986) is a Welsh comedy writer, performer and producer.

Career

Partridge's professional writing career began when he was awarded the BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary in 2011.

Partridge has written for radio, television and live performance. He writes for the CBBC show Horrible Histories,[1] on BBC Radio Wales he is one of the cast and a co-writer of Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes[2] and he also co-writes and produced the second series of Here Be Dragons, which won Bronze at the Radio Academy Awards in 2014. He also devised the BBC Radio 4 panel show It's Your Round.[3]

Amongst his other writing credits are The Now Show, The News Quiz, Listen Against, Small Scenes for BBC Radio 4 and Newsjack for BBC Radio 4 Extra.

In 2013, he performed his one-man show, An Audience With Jeff Goldblum, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[4]

Since July 2015, he writes, presents and produces the Beef and Dairy Network podcast,[5] which is part of the Maximum Fun podcast network. A sitcom that Partridge co-wrote with Gareth Gwynn, "Ankle Tag", was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

References

  1. ↑ "The British Comedy Guide"
  2. ↑ BBC "Pantheon of Heroes"
  3. ↑ "The British Comedy Guide"
  4. ↑ "Broadway Baby - Benjamin Partridge: An Audience With Jeff Goldblum"
  5. ↑ Miranda Sawyer (20 December 2015). "The week in radio: Today; The Show What You Wrote; iPM; From the Sublime; Wooden Overcoats; Beef and Dairy Network". The Guardian.
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