partnership industry theatre radio production founded 1997 headquarters aberdeen scotland key people moray barber andrew brebner elaine clark simon fogiel greg gordon susan gordon john hardie craig pike steve rance website www.flyingpigproductions.co.uk the flying pigs are a musical sketch comedy team based in aberdeen in the north east of scotland that has received some uk wide coverage due to their bbc scotland radio show desperate fishwives . contents 1 history 2 language 3 influences 4 productions 5 bbc scotland 6 references 7 external links history edit after the success of the aberdeen student show during the 1990s several members of the script team during the 1996 last night party toyed with the idea of creating a more raucous version . for years a substantial body of material had been rejected from the show on the grounds that it was too out of left field not of a piece with the remainder of the production or just indecent . writers greg gordon andrew brebner charles sandison ewan macgillivray and grant campbell started meeting on a regular basis creating new characters and ideas . after a while due to other commitments and relocations only gordon and brebner remained ; but by the end of 1997 they had enough material to put on a show . the then director of student show john hardie was asked to direct the show and the original cast all student show alumni were assembled . the first show last tango in powis was debuted at the lemon tree theatre on 19 february 1998 . citation needed language edit the shows themselves use a large lexicon of words from the doric dialect which is particular to the north east of scotland . indeed it was this use of the lowland scots dialect that seemed to be one of the attractions to the bbc . 1 the use of doric allows for humour to be built on the language as well as the situations and characters in the sketches . influences edit one of the major influences on the group is the group scotland the what citation needed who like the flying pigs also formed after meeting each other at the university of aberdeen . john hardie of the flying pigs is the son of scotland the what star william buff hardie . the group cemented their reputation in the city and connection to stw by performing at the freedom of the city of aberdeen reception for scotland the what 2 productions edit last tango in powis 1998 lemon tree studio theatre where seagulls dare 1999 lemon tree studio theatre stanley cooslick s clockwork sporran 2000 lemon tree studio theatre all quiet on the westburn front 2001 lemon tree studio theatre prime cuts the best of flying pig 2001 aberdeen arts centre the madness of kingwells 2002 aberdeen arts centre the hunchback of walker dam 2004 lemon tree studio theatre best back the best of flying pig 2004 hmt at hilton the seagull has landed 2005 his majesty s theatre desperate fishwives stage show 2007 his majesty s theatre desperate fishwives radio show 2007 2009 2010 bbc radio scotland how to look good glaikit 2009 his majesty s theatre desperate fishwives tv pilot 2010 bbc scotland the silence of the bams 2011 his majesty s theatre finzean in the rain 2013 his majesty s theatre a bit of crackling 2015 his majesty s theatre the seagull has landed 2015 king s theatre edinburgh dreich encounter 2016 his majesty s theatre bbc scotland edit in 2007 bbc radio scotland approached the group following their his majesty s theatre stage show desperate fishwives to make a show for radio . later on that year it was broadcast . 3 following the success of the first series 4 a second radio series was broadcast in 2008 . a third series was broadcast in december 2010 throughout christmas week culminating in a special christmas day episode . in 2009 it was confirmed that the bbc were interested in creating a tv pilot 5 and in april 2010 bbc scotland filmed this tv pilot on location in the north east using the desperate fishwives title . 6 the pilot aired on bbc2 scotland on 14 december 2010 . 7 references edit http www.scotsman.com news fit like bbc puts doric .5925347 . jp http www.aberdeencity.gov.uk councilnews ci cns pr whatscotland 021107 . asp http www.comedy.co.uk guide channel radio scotland http entertainment.timesonline.co.uk tol arts and entertainment stage comedy article7017707.ece http www.eveningexpress.co.uk article.aspx 1281163 http www.bbc.co.uk blogs radioscotland 2010 04 desperate fishwives on tv.shtml http www.bbc.co.uk programmes b00wvjns external links edit flying pig productions official website about aberdeen flying pigs laughing stock of the north east in leopard the magazine for north east scotland february 2006 by judy mackie . profile of john hardie retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the flying pigs & oldid 723503906 categories alumni of the university of aberdeenculture in aberdeentheatre companies in scotlandhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 june 2016 at 12 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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