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Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew takes you on an autobiographical journey through the benefits system.

It's a stand-up series taking a wry sideways look at the prejudices that people have towards benefits claimants and turns those assumptions on their heads.

In this episode, Tom takes issue with the term 鈥渟taycation鈥� as he鈥檚 never been abroad in his life.

His stand-up explores how the working class holiday has always been closer to home.

Tom Mayhew is a critically acclaimed comedian, whose material about being working class 鈥� mixing the personal and the political, with the punchline-rate of a one-liner comic 鈥� sets him apart from any other act on the circuit.

Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum is based on Mayhew's acclaimed Edinburgh show I, Tom Mayhew, which transferred to a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre.

Written and performed by Tom Mayhew.

Featuring Chris Cantrill.

Additional material by Olivia Phipps

Producer: Benjamin Sutton

A 麻豆社 Studios production for 麻豆社 Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2022.

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