ReincarNathan

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BBC

Comedy

4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nathan Blakely was a popstar. But he was useless, died, and was reincarnated. The comedy about Nathan’s adventures in the afterlife returns for a fourth and final series, starring Daniel Rigby, Ashley McGuire, Freya Parker and Henry Paker.

In this first episode of the final trilogy, Nathan is brought back to life as a rat in a London sewer. As usual, Nathan has a mission to complete - this time he needs to save an abandoned terrapin who's lost in the sewers from the clutches of a disgruntled crocodile. And Nathan also has his own demons to battle - can he come to terms with the failed pop career he had as a human?

Cast: Ashley McGuire - Carol Daniel Rigby – Nathan Henry Paker - Terry the Terrapin Freya Parker - Crocodile Tom Crowley - Music Manager

Writers: Tom Craine and Henry Paker Producer: Harriet Jaine Sound: Jerry Peal Music Composed by: Phil Lepherd

A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	Ellis, if someone had never heard of our podcast before, how would you describe it?
0:05.3	Initially, I would sympathise, and I would say, I feel so sorry for you. You've missed out on so much
0:10.6	great content. And Alice, if someone had never heard our weekly BBC Sounds Only episode
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0:22.9	So check out the Ellis James and John Robbins podcast and the BBC Sounds only sounds bites episodes. Listen on BBC Sounds,
0:32.3	Music, radio podcasts. Welcome to the final adventures of Nathan Blakely, a one-time pop star best described as
0:41.7	dead. Like many humans, Nathan didn't really smash life the first time round. So now he's
0:47.8	being tested as an animal. His actions are judged by a celestial panel, Mahatma Gandhi, Florence
0:53.3	Nightingale and David Bowie.
0:55.3	No pressure.
0:56.7	So if Nathan ever wants to make it out of this mess, he's going to have to achieve amazing things.
1:01.5	I'm Carol, his spiritual liaison officer, and this is reincarnate.
1:10.7	All things in life must end.
1:14.6	I'm sure you've heard that before.
1:16.6	Your ex probably said something similar when they dumped you on WhatsApp.
1:20.6	Well, it's the same in the afterlife too.
1:22.6	All things in death must also end.
1:25.6	And after being reincarnated into 2,465 animal forms,
1:30.3	our hero Nathan has now arrived at his final three lives.
1:35.3	Three lives, to prove he deserves a place in Elysium,
1:39.3	where eternal joy awaits.
1:41.3	But if he fails, his soul will be recycled and turned into the essential oils
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