Benjamin Partridge
Partridge in 2018
Born1986 (age 37–38)
NationalityWelsh
Occupation(s)Comedy writer and performer

Benjamin Partridge (born 1986) is a Welsh comedy writer, performer, actor and producer. He created the Beef And Dairy Network Podcast.[1]

Career

Partridge's professional writing career began when he was awarded the BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary in 2011.[2]

Partridge has written for radio, television and live performance. He writes for the CBBC show Horrible Histories,[3] on BBC Radio Wales he is one of the cast and a co-writer of Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes.[4] Partridge co-writes and produced the second series of Here Be Dragons, which won Bronze at the Radio Academy Awards in 2014. He also devised the BBC Radio 4 panel show It's Your Round.[5] Amongst his further writing credits are The Now Show, The News Quiz, Hypothetical, Small Scenes for BBC Radio 4 and Newsjack for BBC Radio 4 Extra.[6]

In 2013, Partridge performed his one-man show, An Audience With Jeff Goldblum, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[7]

A sitcom that Partridge co-wrote with Gareth Gwynn, Ankle Tag, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017, 2018 and 2020.

Since July 2015, Partridge has written, presented and produced the Beef And Dairy Network Podcast,[8] which is part of the Maximum Fun podcast network.[9] The podcast is a comedic fictional industry podcast for the beef and dairy industries, described as "surreal bovine-themed comedy" by BBC Radio 4.[10] Six episodes of the podcast were broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April-May 2017, with a further 4 broadcast in 2018.[11] The podcast won the Best Comedy award at the British Podcast Awards in 2017 and 2018.[12]

In 2021 he launched the comedy podcast Three Bean Salad with fellow comedians Mike Wozniak and Henry Paker.[13]

Partridge lives in Wales.

References

  1. ↑ "Beef And Dairy Network Podcast | Podcasts". Maximum Fun. 2019-03-07. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  2. ↑ "BBC - BBC Studios celebrates 40 years of the Radio Comedy Writer's Bursary and announces new recipients - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  3. ↑ "The British Comedy Guide"
  4. ↑ BBC "Pantheon of Heroes"
  5. ↑ "The British Comedy Guide"
  6. ↑ Guide, British Comedy. "Benjamin Partridge". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  7. ↑ "Broadway Baby - Benjamin Partridge: An Audience With Jeff Goldblum"
  8. ↑ Miranda Sawyer (20 December 2015). "The week in radio: Today; The Show What You Wrote; iPM; From the Sublime; Wooden Overcoats; Beef and Dairy Network". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ "Beef And Dairy Network Podcast | Podcasts". Maximum Fun. 2019-03-07. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  10. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Beef and Dairy Network". BBC. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  11. ↑ "The Beef And Dairy Network Podcast - Benjamin Partridge". benjaminpartridge.com. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  12. ↑ Guide, British Comedy. "Benjamin Partridge". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  13. ↑ "Mike Wozniak launches a new podcast : News 2021 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide".
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