Jeremy Hardy to feature in various comedy shows including "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989), and has presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of "Top of the Pops" in 1996. He was one of the two team captains on the BBC Two game show "If I Ruled the World" that ran for two series in 1998–1999. He has become best known for his work on BBC Radio 4, particularly on "The News Quiz", "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" and his long-running series of monologues "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation". His
BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary The BBC Radio Comedy Writers' Bursary (or the BBC Radio Comedy Department Contract Writer) is a scheme through which emerging comedy writers work in-house at the BBC Radio Comedy department for a year. The scheme began in 1978 and was devised by the then-head of Head of BBC Light Entertainment (Radio), David Hatch, and BBC Television's Head of Light Entertainment, James Gilbert. Each department put £5000 a year into a kitty to employ three young writers on a one-year contract. The only proviso was that there was to be no contract for a second year,