BBC Radio 4 Debuts Climate Series With First Puppet Host – Radio World

Randy Feltface has amassed a cult social media following … and is now using his platform for good

BBC Radio 4 is launching a new climate-themed radio series hosted by Randy Feltface, a popular Australian puppet known for his existential humor and social media following. The four-part series, dubbed “Randy Feltface’s Destruction Manual,” will air starting Sept. 21.

Produced and directed by David Tyler, the show combines satire with serious topics to discuss the best ways to address climate change. It will be heard on Radio 4 and will also be available as a box set on BBC Sounds, according to a BBC press release.

Per the release: “Fed up with seeing humans damage the environment, Randy’s anarchic four-part series sees him work out the best way to get the whole destruction business over and done with and bring about the end of the world — with the help of an irritable duck, a fictional French coalminer’s daughter and a sexy earthworm, to name a few.”

Randy Feltface has been seen on Netflix, ABC, NBC and has no shortage of social media followers — boasting 800,000 Instagram followers, 2 million TikTok followers, 1.1 million YouTube subscribers and more than 79 million YouTube views. According to the BBC, since beginning his comedy career in 2005, Randy has written and performed eight solo stand-up comedy shows and released three comedy specials.

“Randy joins an illustrious lineage of puppet presenters on the BBC, including pioneering puppet Archie Andrews, who presented on both TV and radio in the 1950s and 60s, as well as more recent favorites like Basil Brush, Gordon the Gopher and Hacker T Dog, although Randy is the only one who says f**k on air,” wrote the BBC. He’s also the only Radio 4 presenter to be entirely made of felt.

In his own comments, Feltface said, “There’s never been a better time for a painstakingly-researched, four-part climate-themed Radio 4 series hosted by an Australian puppet with a crippling tax debt. I look forward to enlightening, entertaining and irritating the listeners with this semi-depressing audio extravaganza.”

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