[3] In addition to Brigstocke, it stars Rufus Jones, William Andrews, Colin Hoult and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.

[4] The title is a pun on "The Big Society", a core British Conservative Party proposal that sought to phase out government services and replace them with volunteer campaigns.

The programme, a comic monologue punctuated by sketches, challenges the proposal by imagining the nightmare that would ensue if the volunteer were Marcus Brigstocke.

Each week, Brigstocke has volunteered and "been put in charge of a thing", such as a hospital, the railways, British Fashion, a prison, or a drug cartel.

The show was written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Tom Neenan and Steve Punt.