The Burkiss Way

The Burkiss Way
Genre	Sketch comedy
Running time	30 minutes
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC Radio 4
Syndicates	BBC Radio 4 Extra
Starring	Denise Coffey (series 1); Jo Kendall (series 2–6); Chris Emmett; Nigel Rees; Fred Harris;
Written by	Andrew Marshall; David Renwick;
Produced by	Simon Brett (series 1–2); John Lloyd (series 3–4); David Hatch (series 5–6);
Recording studio	BBC Paris Studio, Lower Regent Street, London
Original release	27 August 1976 –; 15 November 1980
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	47
Audio format	Stereo (Lessons 1–5, 28 onwards); Mono (Lessons 7–27); Unknown (Lesson 6);
Website	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c8x5n

The Burkiss Way is a BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy series, originally broadcast between August 1976 and November 1980. It was written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, with additional material in series 1 and 2 by John Mason, Colin Bostock-Smith, Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, Tom Magee Englefield and Liz Pollock.

The first series of the show starred Denise Coffey, Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris. From series 2 onwards the show starred Jo Kendall, Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris. The series had three producers, announced as "Simon Brett of Stepney", "John Lloyd of Europe" and "David 'Hatch of the BBC' Hatch".

The show's humour was based on surrealism and literary and media parodies, sprinkled with puns.