Community radio station Wandsworth Radio has encountered a problem, half of its presentation team have decamped to the Scottish capital for a month as they take part in the world famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe throughout August! 

Station director Jason Rosam said, "I was amazed so many of our presenters said they needed the whole of August off as they were putting on shows at the fringe. I then discovered how many other talented people from Wandsworth were also making the trip. Wandsworth is no ordinary London borough when it comes to performance art. We are so lucky to have so many brilliant venues like the Battersea Arts Centre, Putney Arts Theatre and Tara Arts in Earlsfield as well as a string of comedy nights in our local pubs, bars, clubs and other performance venues."

Wandsworth Radio presenters Maddy Anholt, Sam Baines, Al Cowie, Jay Alexandra Bennet, Simon Lukacs, Hollie Would and The Anti-Duhring Battalion Show are all performing at various venues at the fringe and to celebrate Wandsworth's brilliance as a hub for performers. Wandsworth Radio are travelling up to Edinburgh to broadcast a LIVE show from the Fringe. A team of five volunteers from the station including Arts Editor Lesley Strachan and Head of Music Matt Tunstill will arrive in Edinburgh next week to view as many Wandsworth linked performances as possible. 

The production team has been busy trying to gather all the acts and performers who are connected to Wandsworth to feature on the special LIVE outside broadcast next Thursday 13th August at 7pm. It will be the first programme on Wandsworth Radio to come from outside the borough. You will be able to listen to the show LIVE on WandsworthRadio.com or on the mobile app TuneIn for all smart phones, just search for Wandsworth Radio. 

If you are performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and you live or work in the London Borough of Wandsworth, the radio station wants to hear from you. Please email rud@wandsworthradio.com. 

A selection of Wandsworth Radio presenters taking part in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

• Maddy Anholt - Diary of a dating addict - The Gilded Balloon (presents The Maddy Anholt Show on Wandsworth Radio at 7pm Thursdays)
  With thirty fast approaching like the Grim Wrinkler, Maddy Anholt goes online to find the man of her dreams. In this outrageous one-woman comedy, Maddy reveals every hilarious detail of a whirlwind year of dating, mating and hating. Maddy plays all the characters, including her dates, in this powerful, autobiographical comedy show about a strong, independent woman trying to find ‘Mr Right’ but refusing to settle for ‘Mr You’ll Do’.
   
• Jay Alexandra Bennet - Never Been Better - Opium, Venue 96 - 5pm (presents Wandsworth Workday on Wandsworth Radio on Tuesdays at 1pm)
  Let these sketch clowns lure you into a world of fractious characters who flirt with the bizarre, as their social facades unravel. Secretive mummies, a doubtful priest and a couple who are probably in love. There's a pair of upstarts with a start-up business that can't fail, a doubtful priest, never far from his devoted parishioner and a couple of mummies with a secret on the brink of revelation. Oh, and a couple who are in love? Sure. In love. Probably. ***** (FemaleArts.com). Semi-finalists, Funny Women Awards 2014.
   
• Sam Baines - Sam and Helen: Out There - Just the tonic at The Caves venue 88 (presents Wandsworth Workday on Wandsworth Radio Thursdays at 1pm)
  As seen on BBC and as titled Funny Women Awards finalists 2014. Comedy duo Samantha Baines and Helen Sorren are out there – not in a weird way just in the sense you might bump into them. 13,000 of you watched their online sketch Busy Battle and now you can see them live! Stand-up comedy, sketches and silly chats. ‘Sam and Helen are bloody hilarious’ (Larry Lamb). ‘Hilarious’ (BroadwayBaby.com). ‘Among those to watch’ (Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard). ‘A natural gift for comedy’ (TheGoodReview.co.uk).
   
• Anti-Duhring Battalion - Life in the 21st Century - CowgateHead venue 32 Upone S (presents The Anti-Duhring Battalion Radio Show on Wandsworth Radio Mondays at 7pm)
  Character comedian Anti-Duhring Battalion, the star of the Anti-Duhring Battalion Radio Show looks at life in the 21st Century through the eyes of his various characters & covers topics such as Isis, local councillors, salesmen and comedians. Accompanied by the electronic blues music of Mark the Hook Meller.
   
• Simon Lukacs - Kayfabe - Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys venue 289 (presents Crawdaddy on Wandsworth Radio Thursdays at 9pm and Gits & Shiggles Sundays 8pm)
  Hosts of the Time Out Critics' Choice show Character Assassination, Simon Lukacs ('Incredibly charming' FunnyWomen.com) and Lola-Rose Maxwell bring their debut character hour, Kayfabe, to the Fringe. Expect snooker-obsessed erotic novelists, demented butterflies, and more in an hour of silly, surreal and sharp comedy. Together, Lola and Simon are part of The Petting Zoo ('Improv supergroup' Time Out) and separately can be seen in Demons to Some, Equine Extravaganza and the 2014 Edinburgh smash Upstairs Downton (***** EdinburghGuide.com).