4 x 30 MINUTE EPISODES STARTING 11PM, 30TH MAY 2026
Following the huge success of the first series, which was named one of the best radio comedies ever by the i paper and earned nominations for Best Radio Comedy at the Chortle Awards and two BBC Audio Drama Awards, The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty returns to BBC Radio 4 with four brand new episodes, starting at 11pm on Saturday, 30th May 2026.
Christian Brighty, Jessica Knappett and Colin McFarlane return and are joined by a fantastic ensemble cast of Jason Forbes, Chiara Goldsmith, Jodie Mitchell, Joz Norris, and David Reed – who also worked as Script Editor for the series.
Inverting the familiar worlds of BBC Period Dramas, Jane Austen, Outlander and Bridgerton, The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty follows a hedonistic Regency-era aristocrat (Christian Brighty) who has an epiphany and decides he must right all his many past wrongs, accompanied by his radical chambermaid Babs (Jessica Knappett) and very reluctant butler Churlington (Colin McFarlane).
Series 2 sees Brighty, Babs and Churlington heading to Scotland as Brighty is convinced that he is Scottish, despite the fact he’s never visited and just owns loads of land there; the resort town of Bath where we meet Brighty’s sister Flan; a society ball to carry out a daring heist (at the behest of Brighty’s vengeful former fiancée); and – closer to home – the Brighty estate church for a gothic tale concerning a hungover vicar and a load of bats.
Along the way they encounter a young Jane Bennet figure forced into a life of crime, the settler-colonial armed forces of the East of England Golf Company, and a testosterone-fuelled boxing-obsessed CEO who has worked out the perfect way to control women’s bodies: corsets. Recorded this time in the studio as opposed to in front of a live audience (banished, one assumes, to keep the Ton’s latest gossip safely under wraps until broadcast), The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty is the original sitcom from comedians, writers and TikTok sensations Christian Brighty and Amy Greaves (above)
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