The Fitzrovia Radio Hour are a group of British comedy writer/performers, formed in 2008 and consisting of Jon Edgley Bond, Alix Dunmore, Alex Ratcliffe, Phil Mulryne, Tom Mallaburn and Martin Pengelly.
An hour-long show usually contains three stories – typically in genres such as horror, adventure, science fiction and romance – interspersed with advertisements for products such as whisky, cigarettes and stout.
Popular characters include Leinigen, a fearless explorer; Squadron Leader Edward Templar, an intrepid RAF pilot; Professor Quested, an investigator of the unusual; and Frank Maskill, a Leeds lathe worker who should have known his place.
The Fitzrovia Radio Hour has featured a number of guest actors, including Fiona Sheehan, Laura Carmichael, Esther Biddle, Nick Atkinson, Asa Joel, Chris Gilling, David Oakes and Dan Starkey.
It featured 'Rex Boothroyd: For King & Country', a spy story by Tom Mallaburn and Martin Pengelly, who subsequently joined the group, and Phil Mulryne's adaptation of 'The Suicide Club' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The show, entitled 'Tales of Speed & Time' featured 'The Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late' by Tom Mallaburn and Martin Pengelly, 'The Queen of Nimruth' by Phil Mulryne and a four-minute adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Sherlock Holmes & the Adventure of the Norwood Builder' written by Alex Ratcliffe.
The show featured 'The Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late', 'Mudmen from the Thames' (Mulryne) and 'The Four-Minute Mystery' (Edgley Bond) and was sponsored by Roses Carbolic Soap.
It starred Alix Dunmore, Fiona Sheehan, Tom Mallaburn, Phil Mulryne and Alex Ratcliffe and it was directed by Jon Edgley Bond.
They made three appearances on BBC Radio London's Saturday Breakfast, in the third show broadcasting a short excerpt from 'The Man Who Was Ten Minutes Late'.
[15] From Tuesday 11 January to Saturday 5 February 2011, The Fitzrovia Radio Hour performed at Trafalgar Studios, on Whitehall in London, as part of a double bill with Barbershopera.