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Think the Unthinkable: The Complete Series 1-4
- Narrated by: David Mitchell, Emma Kennedy, full cast, Marcus Brigstocke, Robin Ince
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
All four series of the Sony Award-winning radio sitcom
Meet the hapless management consultants of Unthinkable Solutions – idealistic team leader Ryan, sociopathic Sophie and hippy-dippy Daisy. Enthusiastic and enterprising, they’re strong on jargon (and always ready to ‘imaginate, reincentivise and skin the leopard’), but short on practical ideas – unfortunately for the unsuspecting corporations that come to them for help.
Aided by morally dubious IT expert Owen, and fellow member of the Fraternity of the Sacred Goat, Jed, the team get proactive with clients including a bank, a struggling high street retailer, an inner city school, the Post Office, a zoo, an ailing hospital and the MoD. Over 21 episodes, Unthinkable Solutions prove that there is no 'i' in team – but there is one in 'incompetent'.
Brought in by Barrington Council to rationalise refuse services (ie sack people), Ryan and Daisy decide to take the binmen on a weekend in the Cairngorms instead; and in a bid to revitalise London’s transport system, the consultants put a bus driver in charge while the chief executive is sent back to driving tube trains. Plus, the team get to the bottom of a scam at an electricity company, face the tricky task of making cuts at the firm that insures Ryan’s flashy new car, and set out to smooth the path for Superco, a Megastore that wants to expand into a Terrastore.
Created by acclaimed comedy writer James Cary, this witty, satirical sitcom won the Sony Silver Award for Comedy. It stars Marcus Brigstocke as Ryan, with Emma Kennedy and Beth Chalmers as Sophie, Catherine Shepherd as Daisy, David Mitchell as Owen and Robin Ince as Jed.
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- Cjs
- 20-04-24
Excellent
High quality BBC comedy that only has the standard weakness that there aren't more of the series.
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- Kim
- 02-04-20
Wonderful
Very funny, reminded me of so many training sessions, ice breakers and learning games.
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- 16-08-24
One voice stops the listening
As an avid listener of radio comedy, I'm always on the look out for new releases. This one had passed me by for some reason, but anything with Marcus Brigstock and/or David Mitchell is a definite purchase for me.
However, when I started listening, one voice stuck out and it's one that stopped me listening to another radio series. Whilst the voice suits the character(Daisy), and is a hippy character, for some reason, it just grates on me.
I managed to listen to a few episodes, and loved the script and other performers. Anyone who has worked in offices where managers have bought in consultants will recognise parts of this immediately.
Unlike other bad reviews I may have given about performances in particular, I understand that this more of a personal objection, rather than just being a bad performance, so I hope this gets the audience it deserves, but I'm going to have to return it.
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