A top class and tickety-boo, modern-day, old-fashioned British Radio Show. Hoorah!

Handy hot hints, songs, characters, interviews, news, weather and so much more.

Madge and Monty are the creations of Brian Damage and Krysstal a unique comedy duo performing all around the UK and London Comedy Circuits. Madge provides tips on sensible things to do with your hands and lots of jolly British advice for women. Monty is her hapless, befuddled husband who gets in the way and sounds permanently sozzled. The pair appear to be stuck in a time warp from around the 1940’s – a time of war, Pathé news, mending and making do and being proud to be British. Hoorah!

Madge and Monty host Radio Pear with plenty of old fashioned silliness. But there’s also a comtemporary feel as they introduce a variety of short programmes. News and weather intersperse with items including the Book of the Week, Mucky Fingers the regular Gardening Programme, the Two Biddies as roving reporters, Luvvie of the Week, Vox Pop interviews with the man or woman in the street, Terri the Sheep Shearer and several comic songs.

 Brian and Krysstal play all the characters. The original idea was first conceived in 2003 and parts of Radio Pear were seen in Edinburgh in 2004 receiving a four star review. Since then the duo have been very busy gathering a host of characters to make up the new show.

The name Radio Pear comes from the Pear Shaped comedy clubs which Brian and Krysstal co-promote and compere. Since meeting at the Edinburgh Festival in 2000 the duo have worked as a musical comedy double act all over the UK, Ireland, Australia and also in South Africa, Germany and Gozo (Malta). They have performed at numerous Festivals including: Glastonbury, London Comedy Festival, (2001/02/04), Ludlow Arts Fest, Run To The Sun (2002/04/06), Halesworth Arts Fest, Adelaide, Melbourne, Woodford Folk Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival, Guildford and of course Edinburgh (2000-06).

 “Legendary…Brian Damage and top strangely straight-woman Krysstal… are a one-off cross-genre act but they have echoes of The Bonzos, the heyday of music hall and some rather seedy country and western club…four stars…I laughed like a drain”  John Fleming, Chortle.co.uk (Fringe Fest. Aug 2004)

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