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Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
Sat Aug 3, 2013, 10:13 PM Aug 2013

For fans of British comedy:"Cabin Pressure"

A friend of mine is into everything having to do with Benedict Cumberbatch (star of "Sherlock," among other things), and she found a radio series that he's in called "Cabin Pressure." After she posted some of the jokes on Facebook, I asked her where to get it, and she pointed me toward Audible.com, which has several seasons of it available as MP3s.

Cumberbatch plays one of two employees (the other is Roger Allam, DI Thursday in "Endeavor&quot of a down-at-the-heels charter air service owned by a woman (Stephanie Cole, the aunt in "Doc Martin&quot and her dorky son (John Finnemore, who writes the witty scripts).

The episodes are just the right length for listening on the iPhone during my daily bus ride from home to my summer class, and I'm sure the other bus riders think I'm crazy for giggling out loud at the absurdities. Think "Monty Python" meets "Airplane."

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