Kiri Pritchard-McLean unveils new show

KIRI PRITCHARD-MCLEAN Unveils New Show

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It’s been a busy few years for Kiri Pritchard-McLean, but she’s found the time to write a brand-new show – Peacock. As well as hosting Live At The Apollo, fronting the Radio 4 panel show Best Medicine and starting a comedy school, she’s become a foster parent. Until recently she hasn’t been able to talk about it on stage and hadn’t even told the kids in her care that she’s a comedian. She’s also been using a different name… She’s the Bruce Wayne of comedy but without the mansions.

However, this year something changed and after a couple of the eggiest gigs of her career in boardrooms to social workers, a show about becoming a foster carer has been signed off. Now we get to meet ‘Louise’ as she lifts the lid on social workers, first aid training and what not to do when a vicar searches for you on YouTube. Now, Peacock is heading out on a massive UK and Ireland tour, which includes a visit to Brighton Dome on Fri 25 Oct.

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“It’s fantastic to see our foster carer, Kiri, positively promoting fostering during her UK tour,” said Alastair Cope, Head of Foster Wale. “It will really help increase awareness of foster care, and challenge false perceptions around what it takes to be a foster carer. We hope that through Kiri candidly sharing her fostering journey, people will recognise skills and qualities in themselves and consider putting in an enquiry to foster”.

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Pritchard-McLean is a multi-award-winning comedian, satirist and writer. Her recent credits include appearances on Have I Got News For You, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, QI and Frankie Boyle's New World Order. She has a weekly show on BBC Radio Wales, and has hosted Newsjack, Loose Ends and The News Quiz and her Radio 4 panel show, Best Medicine, has just been commissioned for a second series.

Kiri is also co-creator and co-host of cult hit true crime podcast All Killa No Filla, which has amassed a huge following worldwide. She also hosts the podcast Who Are You Wearing, which features her guests chatting about their experiences with fashion. She somehow also manages to find the time to co-present the comedy travel podcast, The Pod of Wales, with Esyllt Sears.

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One fifth of the sketch group Tarot, Pritchard-McLean is a former winner of the Caroline Aherne Bursary – and has written and directed for The Old Vic and her BBC Radio Wales sitcom, The Learners has just been re-commissioned for a third time. 

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In 2023 she made her screen directing debut for the BBC with Pobl Bachyn. Kiri has also written extensively across radio and was a writer on four series of The Russell Howard Hour.

During lockdown she hosted Live From The Covid Arms, which was declared a cultural highlight of 2020 by The Telegraph and recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest online pub, while raising over £150,000 for food banks and The Trussell Trust.

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