We sit down with actors Tom Basden and Tim Key in the studio to talk about their new movie, The Ballad of Wallis Island! The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery ...

Based on co-writers Tom Basden and Tim Key’s own 2007 short, “The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,” the feature length version sticks to a modest scale. After Herb McGwyer ...

The lottery winner Charles, played by Tim Key, decides to use his money to book his favourite musical duo, called Mortimer-McGwyer (played by Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden), which he used to enjoy ...

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Tim Key, Tom Basden, and Carey Mulligan play an unlikely trio in this British comedy filmed along the coast of Wales When singer-songwriter Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) wades ashore on remote Wallis ...

Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden in The Ballad of Wallis Island Alistair Heap/Courtesy of Focus Features A carefully considered mix of humor and melancholy glows in the fragile sunshine that bathes ...

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE ONE AND ONLY HERB MCGWYER PLAYS WALLIS ISLAND") TOM BASDEN: (As Herb McGwyer) This doesn't make sense. Where will the - where will people be? You said there'd be a hundred.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks comedians Tom Basden and Tim Key, about why they returned to their nearly 20-year-old short film to create a full-length feature, The Ballad of Wallis Island.