Benedict Cumberbatch: Audio clip from "Cabin Pressure" (RADIO TIMES)

Susanna Lazarus
4:05 PM, 22 January 2013
In tomorrow night's episode of Cabin Pressure, Carolyn is going on holiday, leaving her tiny charter airline, MJN Air, in the 'capable' hands of her crew Martin, Douglas - and Arthur, who is put in charge of the fictional fax machine. But by the sounds of this preview clip of tomorrow's episode the crew are, indeed, under pressure following Margaret's strict instructions on how to run the ship (or, er...plane).

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Benedict Cumberbatch: Cabin Pressure; In Concert: a week in radio This contemporary sitcom has an impressive cast, including Benedict Cumberbatch, and a script packed with superb lines (GUARDIAN)

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Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the prissy, uptight captain in Cabin Pressure. Photograph: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images Europe

Light relief in the dreary first full working week of the year came from the return of Cabin Pressure to Radio 4. One of the station's few contemporary sitcom successes (more on that subject another week), it has lured Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam back for a fourth run at playing odd-couple pilots Martin and Douglas. The pair man MJN Air: a tinpot, one-plane budget airline owned by middle-aged divorcee Carolyn, played by Stephanie Cole. It's an impressive cast – Allam does a great line in supercilious grumps and he is in his element as the snarky first officer to Cumberbatch's prissy, uptight captain. But perhaps the real star of the show is its writer John Finnemore, who also plays Carolyn's doofus air-steward son, Arthur.

"The code red is there to stop me being too helpful, and I can't stop being too helpful by being more helpful," he bumbled at his mum, in a script packed tight with superb lines. The crew had assembled for Birling Day, the annual jolly enjoyed by their stupidly rich (and often drunk) regular customer, who charters a flight each year to take him to see the Six Nations rugby final. Except this year, the match was taking place at Twickenham, a short drive from Birling's own house. No matter.

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Benedict Cumberbatch: How to Listen to Cabin Pressure Series 4

If you’re here on this site, you will doubtless have at least a passing interest in listening to the brand new series that starts tomorrow. Here’s a quick guide for how you can do so…

Broadcast time: Wednesday 9th January 2013 18:30BST on BBC Radio 4

UK Listeners
Tune in to BBC Radio 4 on 92-95 FM, 103-105 FM or 198 LW
Radio 4 is also available on Medium Wave using the following locations as a guide:
Aberdeen – 1449 MW
Belfast – 720 MW
Carlisle – 1485 MW
Cornwall – 756 MW
Enniskillen – 774 MW
London – 720 MW
Londonderry – 720 MW
Newcastle – 603 MW
Plymouth – 774 MW

International Listeners
Despite us Brits being the valiant license fee payers, radio is not treated the same as TV shows by the BBC and Radio is broadcast online for the whole world to enjoy. Regardless of your nationality (with possible exception of North Korea), you can listen live online at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/bbc_radio_fourfm/listenlive
If, for whatever reason, that fails you, try this one instead which opens as a popup:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/

Some media players such as Real Player also have radio feeds and you may be able to use those also.

Everyone
All users will have access to episodes for a minumum of 7 days after their respective broadcasts on the radio section of the BBC iPlayer.

Thorny Issue
Please don’t be tempted to record/download the episodes and make them available online – I know inevitably someone will, but this contravenes the BBC licence. If you want a copy to keep for ever and ever, they will be made available for purchase and won’t be expensive. Let’s face it, it’s worth a couple of quid! Remember that the one thing that drives ANY kind of production is sales, so if you would like continued production, like I do, then buying your own copy would only help the BBC decide to make more!

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