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| Absolute Power | ...Stephen Fry and JOHN BIRD star as masters of spin, Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe.... |
| Best Footlights Forward | ...Graeme Garden celebrates the last 50 years of the Cambridge University Footlights Society. With contributions from Clive Anderson, Bill Oddie, JOHN BIRD, Eleanor Bron, Douglas Adams and Rory McGrath. Plus extracts of Footlights revues featuring Peter Cook, John Cleese, Fry and Laurie and Emma Thompson.... |
| Chambers | ...The pompous Fuller-Carp takes a break in the Lake District and finds himself on the wrong side of the law. Starring JOHN BIRD.... |
| Christmas Panto | ...by Stewart Permutt and Debbie Barham. The shocking story of Cinderella and her facially challenged sisters is retold. With JOHN BIRD, Maureen Lipman, Peter Capaldi, Ruthie Henshall, Arthur Smith, Angus Deayton, John Gordon Sinclair and Patricia Hodge. Director Bruce Hyman.... |
| Comedy Catch Up | ...John Fuller-carp is so bent on becoming QC that he employs anyone to help him. Stars JOHN BIRD. From April 1996.... |
| Comedy Winners | ...... |
| Dead Man Talking | ...Comedy series in which JOHN BIRD interviews people who are long dead.... |
| Hislop Vote, The | ...Ian Hislop looks back over 40 years of political satire, investigating some of the most contentious aspects of modern politics, in the sixth of eight programmes. With contributions from `That Was the Week That Was', JOHN BIRD and John Fortune andJeremy Hardy ... |
| In The Chair | ...JOHN BIRD (actor)... |
| In The End | ...JOHN BIRD (actor)... |
| In The Red | ...JOHN BIRD (actor)... |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen - A Portrait | ...German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died in December last year, was an icon of the avant-garde. Tom Service talks to Stockhausen's family, friends and collaborators - including Pierre Boulez, his son Markus Stockhausen, comedian and writer JOHN BIRD and pianist Nicolas Hodges - to find out just what it was that marked him out as such a pioneering and influential figure in 20th and 21st century music.... |
| Man Of Many Parts, A | ...When Sir Peter Ustinov died last month, his many obituarists marvelled at the range of his achievements: actor in films (two Oscars) and theatre, radio comedy pioneer, author of novels, plays and screenplays. He was also a celebrated raconteur, graphic artist, photographer, stage director and designer, and the recipient of many humanitarian awards for his work with UNICEF and UNESCO. 'Sooner or later,' he once said, 'I must decide what to do with my life.' In this Radio 4 interview recorded on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Sir Peter talked to fellow humourist JOHN BIRD about his hectic life and times: about family life, school sports, the army, the heyday of Hollywood, radio comedy with Peter Jones, the complicity of the very old and the very young, God and Andre Agassi.... |
| Mightier Than The Sword | ...Spoof arts magazine programme in which Hugh Pankhurst(John Sessions) examines the literary figures of the past and their relevance in today's society. This week, Virginia Woolf. With JOHN BIRD,Jacqueline Ashman and Rebecca Front.... |
| News Quiz, The [ok] | ...Francis Wheen, JOHN BIRD, Linda Smith, Alan Coren, Brian Perkins.... |
| News Quiz, The | ...The events of September 1998 line up for comic spin. Simon Hoggart quizzes Francis Wheen, Alan Coren, Linda Smith and JOHN BIRD.... |
| Off The Page | ...Matthew Parris is joined by his customary three guests, except this week it sounds like there are more. Instructed to write about his alter ego, John Fortune brings along the John who grew up in Bristol, and the John who performs with JOHN BIRD. Martin Newell morphs himself into an Essex gardener called Ted Jarvis, a character with whom he's obsessed. And the Pauline Black who's best known as lead singer with The Selector explains why her real name is Belinda, even though she yearned to be those famous black goddesses of the sixties, Angela Davies and Marsha Hunt, rolled into one.... |
| People's Psalms, The | ...A six-part series that places the ancient words of the Psalms in a modern context. The fourth programme, about Psalm 41, looks at charity work and, in particular, at work done to help the homeless. Including an interview with the founder of the Big Issue, JOHN BIRD ... |
| Profile | ...JOHN BIRD... |
| Satire And The Sixties | ...JOHN BIRD considers the legacy of the satire boom of the 1960s.... |
| Second City Comedy Central | ...JOHN BIRD examines how a theatre project run by a bunch of highbrow students became a comedy behemoth.... |
| That Mocking Bird | ...JOHN BIRD presents a six-part series exploring the theory and practice of comedy through a series of conversations with great British comic writers and performers.... |
| That Reminds Me | ...The satirist and writer recalls his career and the people he's worked with, like Peter Cook and JOHN BIRD. From November 2001.... |
| Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There | ...With Natasha Barnes, Bernard Hepton, JOHN BIRD and John Fortune. Directed by Marion Nancarrow.... |
| Ustinov At 80 | ...Peter Ustinov talks to JOHN BIRD about his hectic life and times. He discusses family life, school sports, the army, spying, the heyday of Hollywood, radio comedy with Peter Jones, opera in Moscow, Nero, Pol Pot and much more.... |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway? | ...Jimmy Mulville And JOHN BIRD... |
| Wodehouse Notebooks, The | ...At the age of 19, P G Wodehouse was working in a bank, and living in digs in Chelsea. In his spare time he was jotting down ideas, stories, jokes, and lyrics in three lined notebooks, which are now preserved in the Wodehouse Archive, as evidence of a young writer's promise. JOHN BIRD browses through the notebooks, to pull out some choice nuggets of unpublished PGW jottings, voiced by Tim McInnerny. And three Wodehouse aficionados provide explanatory foot-notes, connecting these notes to themes in the writer's life and fiction: Robert McCrum, who's writing a new PGW biography, Norman Murphy (author of In Search Of Blandings) and Sir Edward Cazalet, PGW's step-grandson.... |
| You'll Have Had Your Tea [documentary] | ...JOHN BIRD... |