From Amy Annette, Ray Bradshaw and Matt Hutchinson

Amy Annette, Matt Hutchinson and Ray Bradshaw are all recording their stand-up specials for Radio 4.

Annette’s show is called I Survived The Noughties and is described as a  ‘part nostalgia trip, part therapy session’  look back at the era of girls’ mags, Trinny and Susannah, and the fashion style: ‘business-casual in the club’. 

It is based on the former agent’s first live show, Thick Skin, which she performed at the 2024 Fringe, blending discussions of unrealistic body standards with pop-culture memories.

Meanwhile, Hutchinson’s show draws on the experiences from his day job as a hospital doctor and is described as ‘story-driven stand-up about race in healthcare and the NHS’.

Both shows are being taped in front of a live audience on Wednesday February 4 at Up the Creek comedy club in Greenwich, South London.

Bradshaw is recording his show – called Ray Bradshaw Hears You – on the same night at  The Stand in Edinburgh.

In the programme he describes what it's like to grow up as the conduit between his deaf parents and the hearing world. 

It covers how he was ‘the only seven-year-old in Glasgow in 1996 who knew what an endowment policy was’ because he had to act as the go-between at the bank, how sign language is not international and why he thinks it’s important to teach his own, hearing, son to sign.

He is on a UK tour from next month with a show called Coda – it stands for ‘child of deaf adults’ – which covers similar territory. Ray Bradshaw tour dates.

Bradshaw has been performing comedy for more than a decade and is well-known to BBC Radio Scotland listeners for his regular appearances on topical panel show Breaking The News.

Free tickets for all the recordings are available via Standing Room Only.

Published: 19 Jan 2026