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| Alexei Sayle's Alternative Take | ...From the earliest days of the Comedy Story, there were alternative comics drawing on the traditions of music hall acts like Pauline Melville's Eydie. The line developed through Nigel Planer's Neil, HARRY ENFIELD's creations of Stavros and Loadsamoney and then Steve Coogan's vast array of dysfunctional characters.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...Poet and critic Tom Paulin explores the history of conversation, from the teaching dialogue of Socrates and Plato to the factory-floor gossip of nineties sitcoms. With illustrations from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Sir Isaiah BERLIN and HARRY ENFIELD ... |
| By Popular Demand | ...Alan Davies presents the series featuring the work of legendary performers in music and comedy. HARRY ENFIELD tells the story of humourist, cartoonist and tuba player Gerard Hoffnung. With contributions from Hoffnung's wife Annetta, Ian Hislop, Donald Swann and Esther Rantzen.... |
| Comic To Comic | ...British born Iranian comic Omid Djalili talks about his successful stand up career, how disco dancing and experimental theatre shaped his life and work, discusses what makes good comedy, and mistakenly impersonating HARRY ENFIELD.... |
| Culture Carriers, The | ...An appreciation of the cartoonist, concert organiser and tuba player Gerard Hoffnung by HARRY ENFIELD and Hoffnung's widow Annetta.... |
| Delve Special | ...David Lander investigates shady shenanigans in the Square Mile. With Stephen Fry and HARRY ENFIELD. From September 1986.... |
| Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | ...dirk gently....HARRY ENFIELD... |
| Dirk Gently's Holistic | ...Dirk Gently....HARRY ENFIELD... |
| Fanshawe Gets To The Bottom Of | ...Featuring contributions from HARRY ENFIELD, Ardal O'Hanlon and Victoria Wood ... |
| Gerard Hoffnung - The Irrepressible Bounce | ...HARRY ENFIELD presents a celebration of the short but brilliant career of Gerard Hoffnung. Ian Hislop, Donald Swann, Ian Messiter, Esther Rantzen and Anetta Hoffnung all reflect on the iconoclastic and idiosyncratic career of the gifted cartoonist, musician, comedian and raconteur.... |
| Kind Hearts And Coronets | ...HARRY ENFIELD (Actor)... |
| Laughter In The Air | ...HARRY ENFIELD (ent)... |
| Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul, The | ...... |
| Mel And Sue's Comedy Breakdown | ...In the second programme, they concentrate on the great British motorway service station. With contributions from Rhona Cameron, Rudi Lickwood, Mark Thomas, HARRY ENFIELD, Lee Hurst and Arj Barker.... |
| Million Pound Radio Show, The | ...Enduring 1980s sketch show with Andy Hamilton, Nick Revell and HARRY ENFIELD.... |
| Monkhouse Archive, The | ...An eight-part series in which Bob Monkhouse sifts through some classic comedy. In this programme, he explores the theme of political correctness with the help of HARRY ENFIELD, Warren Mitchell, Quentin Crisp, Redd Foxx, John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson and Jack Dee.... |
| On The Blog | ...Caroline Quentin (Men Behaving Badly) gives a virtuoso performance of all the female parts, Simon Greenall (I'm Alan Partridge) stars as supporting male characters, and Andy Taylor (HARRY ENFIELD's Television Programme) plays Andrew Glasgow.... |
| Opera In Action | ...Michael White celebrates the twenty-first birthday of Opera North. Including recordings of Walton, Musorgsky, Gerhard and Constant Lambert. Artists include Bryn Terfel, John Tomlinson and Sally Burgess, not to mention HARRY ENFIELD offering a guide to opera.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley's guest today is Russell Taylor, one half of the creative team behind the famous Alex cartoon strip, now featured in The Daily Telegraph. With his colleague Charles Peattie, he was also involved in creating the Private Eye cartoon Celeb, on which the recent TV series starring HARRY ENFIELD and Amanda Holden was based. A keen pianist himself, his choices today include piano works by Beethoven, Chopin and Gershwin, with Bach and The Beatles thrown in.... |
| Radio 2 Comedy Greats | ...For more than twenty years, Dick Emery dominated the TV schedules. The Dick Emery Show regularly pulled in audiences of 17 million, making him one of the giants of British character comedy, until his death in 1983. His catchphrases were legendary - the most memorable being '"Ooh you are awful, but I like you" - and his influence can be seen in Little Britain, as well as the work of Catherine Tate, and HARRY ENFIELD. Fan David Walliams investigates Dick Emery's legacy and asks why the comic has been largely forgotten. Dick Emery's characters included grotesque female figures like Mandy the peroxide blonde and the man-eating Hetty. He also gave us the outrageously camp Clarence, Bovver Boy and the "toothy" vicar. Despite being larger than life stereotypes, the British public took them to their hearts, recognising characteristics not far removed from people they knew in everyday life. But while Dick was hiding himself behind the wigs and costumes, he was disguising a bumpy personal life. This programme includes a rare interview with the comic's only daughter Eliza Emery - herself now a singer and entertainer - who recalls what it felt like to grow up with a famous father who was rarely around for her as a child. David also hears from producer/director Harold Snoad and Dick Emery Show writer David Nobbs about the uniqueness of his comedy creations. Co-stars and contemporaries who pop up over the hour include Helen Fraser, Jacki Piper, Robert Gillespie and Vicki Michelle while TV mogul Michael Grade assesses Emery's contribution to the golden age of British television.... |
| Swift Laugh, A | ...Griff Rhys Jones presents the second of six programmes that trawl through the comedy archive. With classic sketches from Les Dawson, Paul Merton, Victoria Wood, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Max Wall, HARRY ENFIELD and Paul Whitehouse.... |
| This Is Craig Brown | ...Outlandish satire with HARRY ENFIELD, Rory Bremner and Edward Fox.... |
| Wonder Years, The | ...In the first of two programmes, Jenny Eclair investigates why children are so popular in comedy. Contributors include HARRY ENFIELD, Rik Mayall, Morwenna Banks and Gina Yashere ... |