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  • Published: 1 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445851693
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 1 hr 24 min
  • Narrators: Brian Cox, Felix Dexter, Laura Solon, Sanjeev Kholi, Lewis MacLeod
  • RRP: $9.99

The Bob Servant Emails: A BBC Radio Dramatisation starring Brian Cox



Brian Cox stars as the 63-year-old Servant in these wickedly funny full-cast email exchanges

Brian Cox stars as the 63-year-old Servant in these wickedly funny full-cast email exchanges

Born and bred in Dundee, Bob Servant sees himself as the people's champion. Once a cheeseburger magnate and part of what he claims to be 'the largest window cleaning round in Western Europe', he's now retired and feeling a little bored. After winning a computer in the bowling club raffle, and only ever receiving spam emails, he decides to take on this plague of the electronic age…

This complete series features the anarchic exchanges between Bob and the unwitting spam merchants who flood his inbox. As they offer him Russian brides, African fortunes, and get-rich-quick scams, he turns the tables by thinking up some outlandish schemes of his own. Playing the fraudsters at their own game, he soon has them in the palm of his hand.

Starring Brian Cox as Bob Servant, and featuring a stellar ensemble cast including Felix Dexter, Laura Solon, Sanjeev Kohli and Lewis MacLeod.

Cast and Credits
Starring Brian Cox as Bob Servant
with Felix Dexter, Laura Solon, Sanjeev Kohli and Lewis MacLeod
Written by Neil Forsyth
Directed by Marilyn Imrie
Produced by Owen Bell

First broadcast BBC Radio Scotland, 29 October-3 December 2010

©2012 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2012 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

  • Published: 1 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445851693
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 1 hr 24 min
  • Narrators: Brian Cox, Felix Dexter, Laura Solon, Sanjeev Kholi, Lewis MacLeod
  • RRP: $9.99

About the author

Neil Forsyth

Neil Forsyth was born in Glasgow in 1978. He is the author of six previous books including Other People's Money, his biography of teenage fraudster Elliot Castro which has been published in six countries and is currently being developed as a feature film, and the novels Let Them Come Through and San Carlos which were critically acclaimed in both Britain and the United States. His trilogy of Bob Servant humour books have become cult favourites, likened to the absurdist comedy of Peter Cook and Spike Milligan, and have been adapted by Forsyth for both BBC Radio Four and BBC Television in the BAFTA-nominated sitcom Bob Servant. Forsyth currently writes for TV, both in the UK and in the USA where he writes for Dreamworks and Universal Studios. He lives in West Sussex.

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