Blue Jam and On the Hour satirist’s first radio sketch in 15 years will be broadcast on Mary Anne Hobbs’ morning show

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BBC Radio 6 Music will air Blue Jam and On the Hour satirist Chris Morris’s first new radio sketch for 15 years on Sunday.

The eight-minute 46-second sketch, written by and featuring Morris, Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding, will be broadcast during Mary Anne Hobbs’ Sunday morning 6 Music show.

Morris said: “This is a work in progress cut from a project that was stored in a vat, but still seems to be breathing or at least emitting gas.

“The series is set in a care home and records a number of vexatious encounters between a new resident, Victor, and his long-suffering care manager.”

His last radio work was the dark, “ambient comedy” Blue Jam, broadcast on Radio 1 in an early morning slot between 1997 and 1999. Channel 4 broadcast a TV version, Jam.

Morris is also best known for co-creating with Armando Iannucci and starring in the Radio 4 broadcast news satire On the Hour and its BBC2 spin-off, The Day Today, which featured a stellar comedy line-up including Steve Coogan, Rebecca Front, Doon Mackichan, Patrick Marber and David Schneider.

He created and featured in another satirical news format, the controversial Brass Eye, for Channel 4.

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