'Andrew Marr's Silly Voices' to Get a Second Series

The BBC has given the green light to a second series of Andrew Marr's Silly Voices, a show where the journalist travels around Britain doing ludicrous impressions of twentieth century icons.

The decision has been backed by the huge ratings the first series has achieved, an audience largely compromised by smug Radio4 listeners who take delight in believing themselves to be more intelligent than the rest of the country.

Next series starts with Al Pacino.

BBC producer, Jake Lyndhall said, "Andrew Marr's Silly Voices has quite rightly taken the nation by storm. The formula of doing bad and hugely exaggerated impressions of famous historic people in no particular order is something fresh and innovative. Trust old Marr to think of that, eh?"

One viewer and avid Silly Voices fan had this to say, "I just love it how he is discussing the birth of radio one moment in Essex, then Churchill's refusal to hand Africa to the Nazis the next in Westminster, then the bloke who invented cheese in Leicestershire and then Churchill and the war again in Westminster!

"And all whilst making them sound like the outrageous stereotypes they were! Bloody genius, it is!" he added.

However, Professor William Jackson, the head of history at the University of Stratton feels the show is misleading: "I had a student today come up and ask me why I had never told the class that the invention of the motor car came after World War II.

"How anyone can think that telling us about a supposed orgy at Garsington manor between Bertrand Russell, Lord Asquith and Virginia Woolf is history, I do not know! And just so he can tenuously link it to a section where he does various awful Nottinghamshire accents in an attempt to impersonate DH Lawrence."

"The only thing that gives me comfort is that in a hundred years time there will be some journalist git with huge prosthetic lugs on quoting some banal piece of shit he said whilst sitting round the dinner table."

Yet, James McClayton from Devon says that show is educational, "I've learnt a lot watching Marr's show! I know exactly who shagged who and which figures were the most conceited, mouthy, yet undeniably witty bastards of the twentieth century.

"If that didn't make Britain, I don't know what did!"