# Listen to Les

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***Listen to Les*** is a long-running comedy sketch show on [BBC Radio 2](/source/BBC_Radio_2) starring [Les Dawson](/source/Les_Dawson), which was written and produced by [James Casey (variety artist)](/source/James_Casey_(variety_artist)). The show was broadcast on BBC Radio 2, with the first episode airing on 11 August 1974, and it ran until 17 March 1985.[1]

Dawson performed various deadpan monologues and played in a number of recurring character sketches including*"At Home with the Desponds"*, *"The Sophisticates"* and *"Cissy and Ada"* supported by other performers including [Daphne Oxenford](/source/Daphne_Oxenford), [Colin Edwynn](/source/Colin_Edwynn), [Roy Barraclough](/source/Roy_Barraclough) and [Eli Woods](/source/Eli_Woods), with additional 'juvenile' roles voiced by local radio personalities Tony Filer and Chris Buckley.

Every show ended with Dawson calling upon the studio audience to join him in a singalong with a popular or classic song, which he would deliberately play badly at the piano, to great comic effect.

## References

1. [https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Listen-to-Les-Audiobook/B0B69K6JV4](https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Listen-to-Les-Audiobook/B0B69K6JV4)

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