Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation was a BBC Radio 4 series of comedy lectures hosted by Jeremy Hardy, first broadcast in September 1993. The tenth and final series aired in 2014.
The lectures were on topics like "How to have a baby", "How to be truly loved", and often included Hardy's personal views on current affairs.
There were a series of sketches and mock interviews carried out with his two guests. Gordon Kennedy and Debbie Isitt were the two main guests, while other guests included Meera Syal, Rebecca Front, Alison Steadman, Stephen Frost, Miranda Richardson and Harriet Walter.
After Hardy's death on 1 February 2019, a final miniseries of two episodes entitled in past tense, When Jeremy Hardy Spoke To The Nation, aired on 16 & 23 May 2019 on Radio 4, with Sandi Toksvig narrating and David Tyler producing a retrospective of Hardy's life through clips of the series, some previously unheard to the public, along with other programmes Hardy participated in.
Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation currently has four audio books on sale.
In addition the first series was adapted as a book, , published by Methuen in 1993.
The show was nominated in 2004 for the Sony Comedy award.