Shaun Keaveny to narrate rock and roll myths

Absolute Radio has announced its first scripted comedy series.

Rockanory, which will narrated by broadcaster Shaun Keaveny, is a series of stories   based on apocryphal rock n’roll legends.

Five-minute episodes will air on Monday to Thursday at 11pm, starting on September 6 with an omnibus podcast released every Friday.

Tales include Status Quo and the Kangaroo,T rying To Get Blood Out Of A Stone, Stairway to Hell, Taking Libertines, Aporkalypse Sow and The Kiss and the Cow’.

This six-week series has been created, written and produced by Jon Holmes, based on his Amazon bestselling book Rock Star Babylon, with funding from the Audio Content Fund.

Keaveny said: ‘The poetical confluence of real and imagined, the nexus betwixt fantasy, fallacy and fckin silly, rock and roll myth exploder…it is an hilarious pleasure to be part of Rockanory, especially since I’m not deemed sexy enough to do the CBeebies Bedtime stories gig after Tom Hardy.

Holmes added: ‘To be able to bring proper, built, scripted comedy to Absolute Radio for the very first time is a dream come true. To be fair, all of my dreams involve Shaun Keaveny, but neither the Audio Content Fund nor Absolute Radio were willing to get involved in any of the others."

Rockanory, made by production company Unusual, is written by Jon Holmes and Gareth Ceredig, with additional material by Charlie George.

Other voices will be provided by Alasdair Beckett-King, Jon Culshaw, Naomi McDonald, Alex Sievewright and Jake Yapp.

Published: 23 Aug 2021