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Catch Rob Newman as he tries out new material for his BBC Radio 4 series at The Glee Club Birmingham
About Rob…
Robert Newman has 35 years experience writing and performing comedy for radio, television and stage. Recent award-winning comedy series include BBC Radio 4 shows Rob Newman’s Half Full Philosophy Hour, Total Eclipse of Descartes, The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution, as well as the natural history series The Extinction Tapes (or Where The Wild Things Were).
Rob tours regularly and extensively, most recently with The Philosophy Show. He has also written four novels and two non-fiction books. Seventeen years ago he coined the phrase No Planet B, which has since entered the language.
He can do all kinds of voices. All kinds.
Winner: Best Scripted Comedy – BBC Audio Drama Awards 2019
Winner: Best Comedy with a live audience – BBC Audio Drama Awards 2019
‘Hugely entertaining, gleefully jaunty and refreshingly intelligent… I loved it.’ ★★★★
The Guardian, 2018
‘He is one amazing comedian’
Time Out
‘Intellectually charged and adorably ambitious…a delightfully digestible dose of brain food’
The Times, 2018