Wing It

Summary

Comedy of the Week – "Wing It" (BBC Radio 4)

Aired: March 16, 2026
Host: Aleister Beckett King
Guests: Steen Rascopoulos, Luke Manning, Karriad Lloyd, Emily Lloyd Saint

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Comedy of the Week" showcases the improv panel show "Wing It," where four top improvisers face off in unpredictable comedy challenges. Under the guidance of host Aleister Beckett King, the cast is thrown into a gauntlet of rapid-fire games—all performed without scripts, rehearsal, or any idea what might happen next. Through a blend of sharp wit, character-play, and audience suggestions, the performers create a relentlessly funny and inventive show, packed with surprise twists and memorable banter.

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Key Discussion Points and Highlights

1. Introductions & Player Warm-up

[00:00 – 00:50]

• Aleister Beckett King introduces the show as, "the completely unprepared show with no script, no prep and no limits."
• Contestants (Steen, Luke, Karriad, Emily) set the comic tone with quickfire, offbeat self-descriptions.
  • Memorable quip: “They’re like innocent babies who have somehow accrued student loan debt.” (Aleister, 00:50)

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2. Game: Change

[01:28 – 04:03]

• Premise: Steen and Luke improvise a scene at a school reunion. Whenever King says "change," they must instantly reword or change their previous lines.
• Hilarious escalation:
  • Steen begins, “Oh, Philip. I didn’t recognize you without your hair.”
  • Luke cycles insults and retorts, eventually settling on, “I don’t know who you are.” (01:43)
  • Steen (as the bully): “I still think you’re a loser.” (01:55)
  • Luke: “I have a billion dollar company now…and I brought all my friends.” (01:58)
  • Eventually devolves into childish name-calling and identity crises: “Piggy Boy, Piggy Boy, Piggy Boy.” (03:12), with Luke countering, “I’m a little, little Piggy Boy. I live in a pig pen and I roll in the dirt.” (03:14)
• Subversive touch: Aleister notes the "weird amount of sexual tension" in the reunion scene. (04:03)

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3. Game: Oscar Winning Moment

[04:03 – 06:51]

• Premise: Steen and Karriad play butchers, transforming mundane moments into dramatic Oscar-style monologues when cued by music.
  • Steen, as a butcher’s son, delivers a moving speech about earning his mother’s pride: “Soon enough, I’ll be carrying that full carcass. One day, it won’t just be Mary’s butchers, it’ll be Mary and Son’s butchers.” (05:11)
  • Karriad’s monologue: A vivid, emotional memory of meeting her husband in the shop (“He had blood on his face, in his teeth, in his hair. I ran my hands through the sticky bodily fluid and I said, I love you, Patrick.” 05:54)
  • Absurd finish when the son unexpectedly says, “Mum, I’ve chopped your hand off.” (06:39)

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4. Game: Genre Switch

[06:51 – 10:42]

• Premise: Emily and Luke act as work friends, shifting styles when King announces different genres:
  • Kitchen sink drama – Deep workplace loneliness: “If you came down to the club as my work friend, we could show ‘em you’re not a piece of poo.” (07:52)
  • Gangster movie – Luke, suddenly a mob boss: “I built this city from the ground up. Post office by post office.” (08:13)
  • Period drama – Aristocratic repressions.
  • Science fiction – “This giant mainframe I built for myself to predict everything that will ever happen…” (09:23); “I’m a sex robot… and you are my cousin.” (09:47)
  • Pantomime, Opera – The team riffs on “Sex Bomb” in opera form, leading King to ask wryly, “So just to be clear, what do we think opera is? Is it the Tom Jones song, Sex Bomb?” (10:42)

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5. Game: Self Tape

[11:15 – 12:27]

• Premise: Karriad improvises the inner monologue of a spider in a bath.
  • Self-motivation becomes existential dread: “Come on, Jacqueline. You’ve got eight legs.” (11:19)
  • Amusing twist: The spider imagines it’s there to “bring them joy,” only to face screams upon being discovered. (11:57)

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6. Game: Three-Headed Expert (Derek Blake, Film Director)

[12:40 – 16:18]

• Premise: Luke, Steen, and Emily answer questions one word at a time as blockbuster director “Derek Blake."
  • Fun insight into the movie’s creation: “Explosions… explosions… Bang. Dinosaur… Dinosaur exploding. Bang. Dinosaurs coming quickly.” (13:05–13:34)
  • A difficult stunt? “Getting the dinosaur to…” [the answer trails off chaotically] (13:38)
  • On Tom Hanks: “Tom Hanks is a naughty boy… Three times did he try and steal my directing hat. It’s not yours, Tom.” (14:02)
  • The movie’s title? “Big Shiny Dinosaur. Coming quickly. Forever more.” (14:30)
  • Plot twist: “The dinosaur twist is not what you expect. It’s that she caused the earthquake which caused the death of Tom, the actor.” (15:04–15:21)
  • “So just to clarify… Tom Hanks actually dies in real life in your film?” “Yes, he did.” (15:41)

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7. Game: Instant Classics

[16:18 – 21:21]

• Premise: Cast creates an impromptu story ("Too Good to Go") set in a graveyard, title and prompts provided by the audience.
  • Story elements: Two siblings on Halloween, a spell-book, recipes confused with magic, dead mother/miscommunications (and urination jokes).
  • Karriad: “Ever since she left us, I’m gonna make a spell to bring her back, Josh.” (17:49)
  • A recipe read as a spell resurrects a dead wife, but further cookery instructions kill her again: “It sounded like chocolate cake and Victoria’s home.” (21:10)
  • Punchline: “It sounds like a great cake, though. In fact, it sounds too good to go.” (21:21)

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8. Game: Party Guests (Guess Who?)

[21:32 – 26:31]

• Premise: Steen must guess the secret quirks of each party guest: Emily thinks it’s her house/surprise party, Luke changes accent with each interaction, Karriad is a witch in disguise.
  • Luke seamlessly shifts between accents: “I’ve been all over the bloody place.” (23:14)
  • Steen catches on: “Every time you speak, you change accent.” (23:30)
  • Karriad’s ‘witchy’ misdirection: “Is everyone wanting to feel like maybe 10 years younger? … Is everyone thinking they want like an extra boyfriend?” (25:19)
  • Steen nails it: “You’ve come in the sky, and you’ve come in to cast a few little spells. Are you a witch?” (26:02)
  • Karriad: “Obviously, I don’t want people to know that.” (26:10)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Aleister Beckett King: “They’re like innocent babies who have somehow accrued student loan debt.” (00:50)
• Luke Manning: “Piggy Boy, Piggy Boy, Piggy Boy.” (03:12)
• Steen Rascopoulos: “I’ve been doing yoga. Change. I’ve been doing Pilates. Change. I’ve been doing ya mum.” (02:38)
• Karriad Lloyd: “He had blood on his face, in his teeth, in his hair. I ran my hands through the sticky bodily fluid and I said, I love you, Patrick.” (05:54)
• Host (on the butchers scene): “Incredible. Gory and touching. Lovely.” (06:51)
• Luke Manning/Emily Lloyd Saint – Genre Switch:
  • “I’m a sex robot.”
  • “And you are my cousin.” (09:47)
• Emily Lloyd Saint (as a spider): “You must be here for a reason. You’re here to bring them joy. Just wait.” (11:57)
• Derek Blake (collective):
  • “Tom Hanks is a naughty boy… Did he try and steal my directing hat.” (14:02)
• Aleister Beckett King: “So just to clarify, Derek, Tom Hanks actually dies in real life in your film?” (15:41)
• Story punchline: “It sounds like a great cake, though. In fact, it sounds too good to go.” (21:21)

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Structure & Timestamps of Major Segments

• [00:00] – Introductions
• [01:28] – Game 1: Change
• [04:03] – Game 2: Oscar Winning Moment
• [06:51] – Game 3: Genre Switch
• [11:15] – Game 4: Self Tape (Spider Monologue)
• [12:40] – Game 5: Three-Headed Expert
• [16:18] – Game 6: Instant Classics (Graveyard Story)
• [21:32] – Game 7: Party Guests Guessing Game

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Tone & Style

The show is anarchic, fast-paced, and gleefully absurd, propelled by the cast’s sharp improvisational skills, comical misdirection, and relentless commitment to the bit. Host Aleister Beckett King keeps things moving with dry, knowing asides and playful ribbing.

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Summary

"Wing It" delivers a freewheeling masterclass in British improv comedy, blending sharp gamesmanship, surreal character work, and a strong sense of camaraderie. Whether it’s turning a butcher shop into a Greek tragedy, or confusing cake recipes with necromancy, the cast’s joyful lack of preparation is the main event. If you need a laugh and respect the craft of pure improv, this episode is "too good to go".

Transcript

[Aleister Beckett King]

It's showtime. Hello, I'm Aleister Beckett King, and welcome to Wing it, the completely unprepared show with no script, no prep and no limits. Four of the UK's funniest improvisers are about to compete in a series of games and challenges, making the whole thing up as they go along. Let's meet the players, hearing what they would say to inspire the troops. Steen Rascopoulos.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah.

[Luke Manning]

Gag Em

[Karriad Lloyd]

Karriad Lloyd Dominil Patrai

[Aleister Beckett King]

Emily Lloyd Saint.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Okay, let's go get Em.

[Aleister Beckett King]

And Luke Manning.

[Luke Manning]

What is Greenland's national anthem?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Those are our players.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Now, our four players know absolutely nothing about what's going to happen next. They're like innocent babies who have somehow accrued student loan debt. But I have here a series of challenges to test their improvisational chops. Steen and Luke, we're going to start with you in our first game, which is called Change. Luke and Steen, in this game, you're going to start at a school reunion. But whenever I yell the word change, I want you to go back in time and change whatever you said to something completely different. Let's play Change.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Oh, Phillip. I didn't recognize you without your hair.

[Luke Manning]

Ah, Frank. I didn't recognize you with that huge belly.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Change.

[Luke Manning]

I didn't recognize you without your wife.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Change.

[Luke Manning]

I don't know who you are.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Philip.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Philip, it's me. I was your bully in high school. I've actually come to apologize for the mean things that I said to you all those years ago.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Change.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I still think you're a loser.

[Luke Manning]

Oh, yeah? Well, I have a billion dollar company now, and I brought all my friends.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

What did you pay them? Did you pay them to be your friends?

[Luke Manning]

No. Change. Maybe.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Change.

[Luke Manning]

How could you tell?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

They're all wearing your face.

[Luke Manning]

Well, that's how friends do things for other friends. You'd know that if you weren't such a bully. Loser. Friends, this is your cue.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Hey, hey, listen. Like, I was a bully loser in the past, but now I'm an empath, actually.

[Luke Manning]

Oh, yeah? You've been doing yoga?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yes, I've been doing yoga.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Change.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I've been doing yoga.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Change.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I've been doing Pilates.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Change.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I've been doing the yoga. Pilates Change. I've been doing. Ya mum. Yeah, sometimes bullies don't change. And you might be worth a billion dollars and have a billion friends, but you'll still be a loser. Philip. Or should I say, oh, Phillip?

[Luke Manning]

That was what you used to call me.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I called you a lot of names back Then.

[Luke Manning]

Oh, yeah.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Used to call you Big Phil, Change. Used to call you Little Phil, Change. Used to call you Piggy Boy.

[Luke Manning]

No, no, don't call me Piggy Boy.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Piggy Boy, Piggy Boy, Piggy Boy.

[Luke Manning]

I'm not a Piggy Boy, Change. I'm a little, little Piggy Boy. I live in a pig pen and I roll in the dirt.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Philip, that's the saddest thing I've ever heard. Listen, can we just bury the hatchet? Okay? I genuinely came here to apologize to you.

[Aleister Beckett King]

I'm sorry, Change.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I don't regret anything.

[Luke Manning]

I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna hire a hitman. He's gonna finish the job.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I would hope so. That's.

[Aleister Beckett King]

A school reunion with a weird amount of sexual tension. Was I the only one? It was subtextual, but it was there. Okay, the next game is called Oscar Winning moment. Steen and carry out. Up you get. You're both fantastic improvisers and brilliant actors. So let's stretch your acting muscles. We're going to have a scene set in our place, suggested by that side of the audience, butchers. Okay, we have a scene set in a butcher's. But whenever you hear dramatic music, play. Whoever is speaking must deliver an Oscar winning monologue about whatever you happen to be talking about. Let's play Oscar Winning moment.

[Luke Manning]

Here.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Donald, get me them lamb chops, will you, darling?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah, no problem there, Mary.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, that's a lovely. Look at the blood on that, Donald.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

It's nice, those three lamb chops there. There is.

[Karriad Lloyd]

You know what? I just want to say, son, I'm very proud of you.

[Luke Manning]

You're doing well, Mum.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I really appreciate it.

[Luke Manning]

And

[Steen Rascopoulos]

it's the first time she's ever congratulated or appreciated me. You see, she'd always be like, go

[Luke Manning]

get the bucket of blood.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

But today, today she asked me to get the lamb chopped. And this is where it started. Lamb chops. And she asked me to get the sausages. Soon enough, I'll be carrying that full carcass anymore. One day, it won't just be Mary's butchers, it'll be Mary and Son's butchers.

[Karriad Lloyd]

I wondered if you could get me

[Steen Rascopoulos]

the bucket of blood yet. No, Tom.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Thank you, Donald. You're doing a lovely job.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Really nice.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah, Mum, you reckon I could hack a lamb shop or something?

[Karriad Lloyd]

You want to do the cutting up? That's what butchers call it.

[Luke Manning]

Oh, stupid boy.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Stupid.

[Karriad Lloyd]

No, Donald, I think. I think you might be ready for cutting up. You know, that was your dad's Apron? Yeah. First put it on the first time I met him. It was white, clean, like a. Like a cloudy sky. And then before I knew it, he chopped the head of a pig right in front of me. Blood went all over it. He laughed. He said, look at me, Maureen. He had blood on his face, in his teeth, in his hair. And I ran my hands through the sticky bodily fluid and I said, I love you, Patrick. It was then he said, marry me. And before I knew it, I was married.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Mum, I've chopped your hand off.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Incredible. Gory and touching. Lovely. Emily and Luke, this next game is for you and it's all about genre. You're going to start a scene as. Let's get a suggestion from this section of the audience. A relationship between two people.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Cousins.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Cousins. It's going to get sexy. So let's be. Let's keep going. Let's go therapies and patients. Something like that. Another suggestion, you're gonna start the scene as work friends, but I'll be pausing the action at various points to switch up the genre. Let the game begin.

[Luke Manning]

Tina, did you want to sign Alan's retirement card?

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Oh, yeah.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Yeah.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Well, I did want to tell you this. Quite a lot of us are getting together for Alan's retirement party.

[Luke Manning]

Okay.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

And I didn't know whether you been invited, but if you haven't, I would like to just because I like you at work.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Kitchen sink drama.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

But no one else does. So I was thinking if you came down to the club as my work friend, we could show him that you're not a piece of poo. We could show him that you are. You're real men. And you don't just exist here in the post office.

[Luke Manning]

I can't go down to that club anymore, gangster movie. Not after what they did to me. I built this city from the ground up. Post office by post office.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

And you did such a good job, boss.

[Luke Manning]

But the mail don't get delivered no more without me saying, see. Now, who's been delivering letters behind my back? Is it Alan?

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

It was little Billy Bob.

[Luke Manning]

Little Billy Bob.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Period drama.

[Luke Manning]

Well, one certainly has a special delivery for Tiny William Bobb.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

And surely he'll be so happy to see you. Really, I mean, in real life, cooped up here in the post office. You really do belong in the outside world with us at the retirement party.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I ref

[Aleister Beckett King]

science fiction.

[Luke Manning]

I refrain from the outside world. This is where I truly belong. This giant mainframe I built for myself to predict everything that will ever happen and has ever been.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Do we have.

[Luke Manning]

Do we have It. I know exactly what you're going to say. It says it right here on this screen. I'm a sex robot. Yes, exactly. You are a sex robot.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

And you are my cousin.

[Luke Manning]

Yes.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Pantomime.

[Luke Manning]

But where is my other sex robot?

[Karriad Lloyd]

What?

[Luke Manning]

Oh, no, she isn't.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, yes, she is.

[Luke Manning]

Oh, no, she.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Opera.

[Luke Manning]

Sex bossbot. Sex bod. Sex bod. You're a sex boss. And you can do it to me anytime you. Come on. No. Sex box. Sex box. You want a sex box?

[Aleister Beckett King]

So just to be clear, what do we think opera is? Is it. Is it the Tom Jones song? Sex bomb.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

It's a modern day opera.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Contemporary.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Fantastic. Fantastic and tuneful. Wonderful story. Now it's time for self tape. This is a game where you're gonna be improvising solo with only a prompt from me as inspiration. Carrie Anne, your scene is the inner monologue of a spider in a bath.

[Karriad Lloyd]

You can do this. You can get out.

[Luke Manning]

You can go. You can go.

[Karriad Lloyd]

It looks so slippy, but you can do this. Come on, Jacqueline.

[Luke Manning]

Come on.

[Karriad Lloyd]

You've got eight legs. You've got eight leg. You're gonna put one leg on the shiny bin, another leg on the shiny bin, another leg on the shiny bin, another leg on the shiny. Another leg on the shiny bit, Another leg on the shiny bit, Another.

[Luke Manning]

Oh, you got down.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah, Turn.

[Karriad Lloyd]

You're down.

[Luke Manning]

You're down.

[Karriad Lloyd]

You're down. Don't look at the Plucko. Don't look at the Pluckholm. There's nothing there for you. There's nothing there for you. Jacqueline, you look. It's so. It's so pretty. The Pluckholm is so pretty.

[Luke Manning]

Just come on.

[Karriad Lloyd]

What did they tell you in spider training school? You gotta reach out. There's a window. You came in through the window. I don't know how you got in. No one knows how you got in.

[Luke Manning]

Declan.

[Karriad Lloyd]

The wind must have just sent you here. You must be. You must be here for a reason. You're here for a reason. You're here to bring them joy. Just wait. Just wait. They're gonna come in, and when they see you, they're gonna be so happy. Just bringing dreams to children. I knew being a spider had meaning. Oh, here they come. Why are they screaming? I'm trying to help you.

[Luke Manning]

I'm trying to.

[Aleister Beckett King]

For this next game, three heads are better than one. Luke Steen and Emily, you are going to be assuming the role of Derek Blake, the director of a big new action film. And you'll be answering a few questions on. On the Making of that film. One word at a time. A round of applause for Derek Blake. Mr. Blake, can you tell me what inspired your new movie?

[Luke Manning]

When I thought of my biggest action movie today. Today I did eat. Think at all. Explosions, explosions.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Bang.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Dinosaur

[Luke Manning]

exploding. Bang. Dinosaurs coming quickly.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Of course, the movie is packed with stunts, which was the most difficult to achieve.

[Luke Manning]

Getting the dinosaur to.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Now, rumors are there was a heated exchange behind the scenes between you and the lead actor. Would you like to tell us about that?

[Luke Manning]

Tom Hanks is a naughty boy. Three times. Did he try and steal my directing hat? It's not your Tom. It's mine. Tom.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Now, what is the. What's the title of this picture?

[Luke Manning]

Big Shiny Dinosaur. Coming

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

quickly.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Forever more.

[Aleister Beckett King]

And I don't know if you can talk about this, but the rumor is there's a big twist at the end of the movie. Would you like to. Would you like to tell us what the twist is?

[Luke Manning]

The dinosaur twist is not what you expect. It's that she.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Ooh.

[Luke Manning]

Caused the earthquake, which caused the death of Tom, the actor.

[Aleister Beckett King]

So just. Just to clarify, Derek, Tom Hanks actually dies in real life in your film?

[Luke Manning]

Yes, he did.

[Aleister Beckett King]

And what's your next project?

[Luke Manning]

The death of tom. Tom.

[Aleister Beckett King]

The death of tom.

[Luke Manning]

Tom ford. Did you say tom? Yeah, because I'll just repeat that.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Okay, we're going to need the whole audience on the edge of their seats now because it's time to play Instant Classics, where we come up with a brand new story with a beginning, a middle, and an end based on prompts from you. So for this game, I need a location, like booking a palace or a hospital.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Great meal.

[Karriad Lloyd]

The beginning. Wow. Two people said graveyard.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Okay, we're gonna go with graveyard. And we need a title.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Murdered in the Mirror.

[Luke Manning]

Too Good to Go.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Too Good to Go. I like that. Okay, so the location is graveyard, and the title is Too Good to Go. We present Too Good to Go.

[Luke Manning]

Okay, Mary, we're here in the graveyard, but can we go now? I came like I said I would.

[Karriad Lloyd]

You're such a silly little brother. What's wrong with you? Why have you wet your pants again?

[Luke Manning]

It's kind of scary here, Mary.

[Karriad Lloyd]

You don't have to be scared. We're just here on Halloween. What could happen? Josh.

[Luke Manning]

Yeah, Mary. What did you want to do here anyway? I saw you had that book in your backpack.

[Karriad Lloyd]

That's right, Josh. I got it right here. It's a book of spells. I found it at the public library. I hope they keep funding them.

[Luke Manning]

Spells? Like good spells? Like. Oh, like making a birthday Cake. Or bad spells like Josh.

[Karriad Lloyd]

That's called a recipe. That's not a spell, Mom.

[Luke Manning]

Mom says kitchen is where the real magic is. Oh, Mom.

[Karriad Lloyd]

It's. Ever since she left us. I don't want to remember her. I'm gonna make a spell. I'm gonna make a spell to bring her back. Josh.

[Luke Manning]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're gon.

[Karriad Lloyd]

She's dead,

[Luke Manning]

Josh.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah.

[Karriad Lloyd]

I thought she'd moved to Poughkeepsie.

[Luke Manning]

No, but. Sorry.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry. Oh, Beth, I really miss you. Hope to see you again one day and.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, it's old man Albert.

[Luke Manning]

Who do you think he's talking to?

[Karriad Lloyd]

His dead wife. Beth.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I'll be back later.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Hey, Albert.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Oh, sorry. That's so embarrassing. Me leaving flowers for my dead wife.

[Karriad Lloyd]

That's not embarrassing. That's a human reaction to grief.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Hey, you're two small children here on Halloween. Oh, you pissed us off. We were.

[Luke Manning]

What is it?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Strange things happen in graveyards.

[Luke Manning]

Why are you holding my arm so tightly?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Sorry.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Crazy talk. Just because it's Halloween. What? The Ghosts know it's 31st of October.

[Luke Manning]

They do?

[Karriad Lloyd]

What?

[Luke Manning]

Ghosts know dates.

[Aleister Beckett King]

What?

[Karriad Lloyd]

They know dates. Do they know time?

[Luke Manning]

They know time, they know dates.

[Aleister Beckett King]

That's all.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, okay. Alpha. What's that? Can you hear it, Josh? Sounds like somebody knocking down.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Who's been reading a recipe about a cake?

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, I was reading the Victoria sandwich cake recipe.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

No.

[Karriad Lloyd]

What is it, Albert?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

On old days, you read a recipe.

[Karriad Lloyd]

I just thought it was a recipe.

[Luke Manning]

I knew. I said, oh, my God.

[Karriad Lloyd]

I got a hand coming out of the ground.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Oh, that's not any hand. I know that ring anywhere. Beth.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, my God.

[Luke Manning]

Is it the 31st?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

What? You'll have to speak with better clarity.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Is it 7:25pm on the 31st?

[Karriad Lloyd]

It sure is, ma'. Am. Just.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Just one.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Dad.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Oh.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Anything else?

[Luke Manning]

Are you all right? Well done. No, I pissed my pants again.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Josh, how did you drink that much water?

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

It's my husband there.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Is he the old man? Albert?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yes.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Albert, she's talking to you. There's something you should know. He did it.

[Luke Manning]

What? What's happening? Uh, nothing, Albert.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Nothing.

[Luke Manning]

She said there's an offer on hot dogs just down the street. You gotta go now.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Now,

[Karriad Lloyd]

Dad, Stick around.

[Luke Manning]

Hope she's coming up. Oh, my God. Hey.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Hey. There wasn't an offer at all. I have to pay full price.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Albert. She's risen from the grave.

[Luke Manning]

Albert.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Has he wet himself? Yeah.

[Luke Manning]

Only three times.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Four eggs, a carton of milk.

[Karriad Lloyd]

He's really?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Stir quickly, then add chocolate, and then

[Karriad Lloyd]

he doesn't know how to make a cake. What is he reading?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Is that the method? Is that. Add some lentils.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Fun cooking. It's killing her again. Fun cooking.

[Luke Manning]

Kill, please.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, my God. She's shriveling up into dust. She's just appeared into ashes. All from you rereading two recipes. It sounded like chocolate cake and Victoria's home.

[Luke Manning]

It sounds like a great cake, though. In fact, it sounds too good to go.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Now, for this next game, I need Steen to leave the room. So let's say what we really think about Steen. When Steen returns, he's going to be hosting a party and our other three players are going to be. The only trouble is he has no idea who they are. He's going to have to come back in and guess all three of them. So, Emily, you think this is your house and it's a surprise party for you? Luke, you change your accent every time someone speaks to you. And Carrie add you are a witch in disguise.

[Karriad Lloyd]

What am I playing and missing

[Steen Rascopoulos]

now?

[Aleister Beckett King]

If Steen gets close to the right answer, I want to hear a pantomime. Ooh. If he's going in totally the wrong direction, I want to hear nah, nah. And if he gets it right, I want to hear a big cheer. Let's keep that going. Get Steen back in the room.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Oh, I'm running so behind. Haven't even baked a cake yet. Okay. Four eggs, some flour. Oh, the door.

[Luke Manning]

Hey, Steen, how are you? Lovely to see you. Hey, look.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Good to see you, brother. How are you?

[Luke Manning]

I'm very good, you know. Yeah?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Are you really?

[Luke Manning]

Well, so I've actually been a little bit under the weather recently. I've had such a terrible time of it.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Oh, no. Do you need to do a cup of tea?

[Aleister Beckett King]

What?

[Luke Manning]

Do you need a cup of tea? No, I do not think so, my friend.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Oh, man, you have traveled from Edinburgh.

[Luke Manning]

I'll tell you, mate, I've been all over the bloody place.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Have you really? Tell me all the countries you've been.

[Luke Manning]

Hey, it's not so much about countries, I feel alright. It's about the journey, not the destination.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah, right, man, you are, man. You're gonna get along with my brother so well. Get along with your brother, huh? Yeah. Cause every time you speak, you change accent.

[Luke Manning]

Hello?

[Karriad Lloyd]

Hello?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Who's there?

[Luke Manning]

Me. It's me.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I can see you.

[Luke Manning]

Can I open my eyes? Of course.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Again.

[Luke Manning]

Surprise.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Where's everyone?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Huh?

[Karriad Lloyd]

Where is everyone?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

You're here half an hour early. Everyone's Coming in about half an hour, but come in. Have you want a pie, you want a tea? You want a lukewish? Is here. But I'm here to.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, my gosh.

[Luke Manning]

What?

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

You've moved everything.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

No, everything's here. The chair's here.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Okay.

[Luke Manning]

No, no.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Shall I go and come back or stay?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Because then I'll be by myself, you know?

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

But I just. I. Okay.

[Karriad Lloyd]

What if.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Shall I disappear and you turn off the lights and then just let.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Were you disappointed with how this played out? We were expecting a surprise party. Were you disappointed that there was not a surprise party?

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

I'm gonna go up to the bedroom.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Don't do that. That is out of bounds, and I'm putting my foot down. You can go.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Oh, sorry.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Someone's knocking. That's a strange knock. Hi.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

Thank you.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, my God. I'm sorry I'm late. The sky was, like, so busy.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Was it?

[Karriad Lloyd]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, did you.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Did you come on? The what? The sky?

[Karriad Lloyd]

Yeah. I'm just gonna get a drink. Should I. I'll make. Should I make my own?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah, please.

[Karriad Lloyd]

I'll make my own.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah. Let me watch.

[Luke Manning]

Okay.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Well. Oh, I'll just. Yeah, I'll just get a bowl. There we go.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Yeah.

[Karriad Lloyd]

You can do it in a bowl. People think you can't, but you can

[Steen Rascopoulos]

make a drink in a bowl.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Yeah. Yeah, of course you can.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I mean, it's a big drink.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Yeah.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

I don't know her.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Okay. Will you.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

So that's one of my friends.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Is everybody wanting a bit of this drink? And is everyone wanting to feel, like maybe 10 years younger? Or is everyone thinking, like, they want to, like. Like an extra boyfriend to feel sick? What? You.

[Luke Manning]

What's.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

What. What are. What's happening?

[Karriad Lloyd]

I'll just. I'll mix my own drink. I'll do it. I'll.

[Emily Lloyd Saint]

For me.

[Karriad Lloyd]

What have you got for me, Izzy?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Are you. Like, it's not even your birthday, but you want it like, you think it's your birthday. It's not your birthday. I think it's a virtue for you.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Yes. Okay, so I'm just gonna have my drink.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Have your drink.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Do you want it?

[Steen Rascopoulos]

I would love a bowl as well.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Oh, your own bowl. I didn't know you practiced. That's so cool that you practiced as well.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

You came in the sky, and you've come in to cast a few little spells. Are you a witch?

[Karriad Lloyd]

Obviously, I don't want people to know that. So.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Okay, so you're a snitch. Witch.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Yeah. That counts. Yeah. Okay.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

You're undercover. Are you an undercover witch?

[Karriad Lloyd]

Okay, so I actually have quite a. A few parties to go to. I'm doing tarot readings.

[Steen Rascopoulos]

Wait, did I get it or you still doing a bit or like.

[Karriad Lloyd]

Yeah, you got it, but I'm just doing a bit where the character leaves.

[Aleister Beckett King]

That's the end of the show. Thank you so much to our fantastic players. I'd be follow any one of you into battle anytime. To the death, my friends. Came out more romantic than I intended. Join us again next time on Wing it, the only show with no script, no prep and no clue what comes next. I've been Alastair Beckett King.

[Luke Manning]

Goodbye.

[Aleister Beckett King]

Your Wingate players were Steen Rascopoulos, Harry Adler, Emily Lloyd Saini and Luke Manning. Your host is me, Alistair Beckett King. The show was devised and produced by Sam Holmes and It was a BBC studio studio production for Radio 4.

[Russell Cain]

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