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This Christmas you can hear a special programme of World Cup monologues performed by Johnny Vegas.
In June 2006 we asked listeners to write a World Cup inspired monologue and 20 of them were broadcast on Five Live.
Now you can hear a selection from those broadcasts on Christmas Day 8pm-9pm. | |  |
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The drama of the 2006 World Cup provoked a fantastic response to our World Cup Tapes competition. We had over 1100 entries and of these, 20 were broadcast on Five Live to great acclaim and enjoyed by the Five Live audience.
Moz Dee, the Commissioning Editor for Five Live commented on the competition: "This writing project has produced some of our best moments through out the World Cup. A great standard of writing bought to life with Sheridan, Kwame and Johnny Vegas."
Kate Rowland, the Creative Director of Writersroom added: "We've been thrilled by the standard of writing and the range of ideas. It's been a highlight of my World Cup!"
Please note that all scripts are fully protected by copyright. Any enquiries concerning the rights for professional or amateur stage production, broadcasting, readings etc should be made to the BBC.
Johnny Vegas launched the competition on FA Cup Final day with his own monologue.
 Listen to Johnny's monologue or read it here. (You will need Adobe Acrobat to view.)
Johnny was also filmed recording some of the monologues in the Five Live Studio. Watch Johnny perform Spirit of 66 by Paul White.
In the Boxing Day special you can also hear an added recording of the monologue written by finalist Terry Concannon. You can read it below:
Read Finished with England by Terry Concannon. (You will need Adobe Acrobat to view.)
About the actors who took part
Since winning the critic's award at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival Johnny Vegas has made a name for himself as a comedy actor in the likes of Happiness and Ideal.
Although best known as an entertainer, Johnny has also taken on dramatic roles in the likes of Tipping the Velvet and the BBC's modern take on A
Midsummer Night's Dream. He recently played eccentric landlord 'Krook' in
Andrew Davies' 2005 adaptation of
Bleak House.
For many Kwame Kwei-Armah is best known for his role as the paramedic Findley Newton in the
series Casualty and for taking part in Comic Relief's Celebrity Fame Academy, but outside of TV, Kwame is a prolific stage actor and playwright.
His
play Elmina's Kitchen won The Evening Standard's Charles Wintour Award for Most
Promising Playwright and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier award for Best New
Play 2003. His latest play, Fix Up, opened at the National Theatre in December 2004 to
rave reviews.
Sheridan Smith is currently starring in BBC THREE's newest sit-com Grown Ups. To date she has starred in the hit BBC comedies The Royle Family, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Eyes Down alongside Paul O'Grady.
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