Review of tonight's Radio 2 Festival Of Funny pilots
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Secret Desires (
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The BBC are going all-in on Kiri Pritchard-McLean as a star of the future, as well they might, since she’s a fine comic.
Less than two months after her Radio 4 special Egg-sistential Crisis, about the low birth rate among millennials, comes this Radio 2 pilot, as part of the Festival Of Funny season. And that’s not counting her Radio Wales show, her appearance on Funny Festival Live on BBC Two this Tuesday, her hosting of Radio 4’s Newsjack, and various guest appearances.
The risk of being one of the hardest-working women in comedy, of course, is breadth over depth: becoming one of those comics who’s booked absolutely everywhere as a safely witty pair of hands, without ever getting the chance to create something truly memorable.