Weak at the Top

Weak at the Top is a situation comedy originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005 and 2006. It revolves around a businessman anti-hero, John Weak (Alexander Armstrong), whose main attributes are summed up in the words "randy, sexist, and drunk". Weak is the Marketing Director of Smokehouse plc, a global corporation which turns "food you wouldn't give to your dog" into snacks and other packaged and processed items. Smokehouse's actual products are irrelevant to John Weak, whose objects in life are to have the best car, bed the hottest women, and be top dog.

Weak at the Top
GenreSitcom
Running time30 minutes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
SyndicatesBBC Radio 4 Extra
Starring
Created byGuy Browning
Written byGuy Browning
Original release7 September 2005 (2005-09-07) – 19 July 2006 (2006-07-19)
No. of series2
No. of episodes8
Websitewww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wfyx

John Weak's main problem is satisfying Smokehouse CEO Sir Marcus Rigsby (Geoffrey Whitehead), who is liable to demand adoption of the latest management fad "by Friday, John!". Thick-skinned personal assistant Hayley (Clare Perkins) fences with her boss John constantly. When the squeeze is really on, John turns to his "Director of Long Lunches and Work Avoidance", Bill Peters (Ron Cook), who can be counted on to rescue the situation with a brilliant scheme, usually after he is well into the second bottle of claret.

The script is written by Guy Browning who also writes books about management and business. He based the programme on his book of the same name.[1] "Smokehouse" is the name of Browning's own marketing company.

List of episodes

Series 1
  1. Gold Card
  2. Smoked Meat
  3. Knowing Your Unions
  4. Trout Farm

Series 2
  1. Conference
  2. Booty
  3. Values
  4. Otters
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gollark: There are also different WiFi standards for packing higher data rates into whatever frequency range, some of which work, I think, by using several streams at different frequencies combined.
gollark: 2.4GHz and 5GHz are different, er, frequencies, though stuff doesn't run at exactly those frequencies but generally around them.
gollark: That's not really quite accurate.
gollark: You mean 5GHz WiFi or 5G the unneceesary mobile standard?

References
  1. Browning, Guy (2001). Weak at the Top: The Uncensored Diary of the Last Cavemanager. Financial Times/Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0273656821.


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