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Union Jack to broadcast nightly show from Edinburgh Fringe
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 23 July 2019
Union Jack, the Oxford-based radio station that broadcasts nationally on the DAB digital radio network, has announced that it will broadcast a series of shows from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe next month.
The show will be called ‘On The Mic’ and will air between 9pm and 10pm each evening. Hosted by Martin Walker, each edition will feature four comedians who are performing at Edinburgh’s big festival this year.
The station’s Programme Manager, Giles Gear, says: “Very few people would be able to take a month out to pop to the Fringe and soak up the incredible comedy. So, through Union Jack radio, we’re bottling the atmosphere of the world’s largest arts festival and bringing some of the very best names in British comedy to our audience, every night from 9pm. With a nightly show, a podcast, and over 100 comedians featuring in the show, no other radio station is as dedicated to bringing the Edinburgh Fringe to their listeners as Union Jack”.
Though Union Jack’s main brag is that it plays “the best of British” music, it has been throwing increasing amounts of comedy into the mix of late, with Geoff Rowe, founder of Leicester Comedy Festival, recently appointed as its Director of Comedy.
Meanwhile, now you’ve brought up the Edinburgh Festival, don’t forget that CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks Edinburgh will again be covering the Scottish capital’s big three week festival of comedy, theatre, cabaret, dance, music, musicals and spoken word. There are already plenty of Q&As and show recommendations to check out.