of performance. In April 2022, Kitson announced a return to the stage after 2 years. With his new show Outside, he toured outdoor venues in the UK in his first live performances since the start of the pandemic. Film and television Kitson appeared in an episode of That Peter Kay Thing, "The Arena", and as Spencer in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights. He also played a bus driver in the 2001 film Dog Eat Dog. In 2007, clips of Daniel Kitson's stand-up were shown on the one-off Channel 4 show 100 Greatest Stand-Ups where he came 27th. In an updated version of the poll in 2010, he was voted 23rd. Chris Addison commented that 'Kitson is the finest comedian of his generation'. Stewart Lee also commented, after seeing a stand-up set by Kitson, that he saw stand-up 'about as good as it could get'. Whilst in his teens, he appeared as a contestant on the ITV quiz show Blockbusters. Kitson voices an "alley rat" in the pilot episode of the Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler comedy Penelope: Princess of Pets which was aired in 2010 by Channel 4. Radio In 2006, Kitson began presenting his own weekly music-based radio show called The Listening Club. The show, broadcast live 1 am to 4 am on Monday nights / Tuesday mornings from London's community arts radio station Resonance FM, mainly involves music from his own collection (some played directly from his iPod), and occasional clips of comedy. In between tracks he talks about the music, tells anecdotes, and responds to the SMS text messages and e-mails that are sent in throughout the show. There were six shows in the original January / February 2006 run, with further instalments in October 2006 and February 2007. Kitson returned to Resonance FM in early 2013 on Tuesdays from midnight to 2:30 am. The show is only broadcast once with no repeat or accompanying podcast to ensure that audiences hear the show only once to make it more special, he also requests that no one record the show. The show returned in September 2016 under the title "Captain Bang Bang's Magic Castle" for a run of five weeks. This run of shows was subject to a number of mishaps which resulted in Kitson only broadcasting for one hour of the fifth show due to missing his train and missing the entire final show due to not being