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| Archive Hour, The | ...SIMON FANSHAWE delves deep into the BBC to discover the lengths programmes and presenters go to in order to capture some of the traditions of CHRISTMAS.... |
| Beyond Compere | ...SIMON FANSHAWE examines the fine art of compering in a programme that ranges from Round the Horne to The Comedians; from Joel Gray to Bob Monkhouse; from Barry Cryer to Robin Williams, by way of Ross Noble and Arthur Smith. We ask, what is it that sets a really great compere apart?... |
| Booked! | ...SIMON FANSHAWE chairs the irreverent writing game. This week, Carmen is interviewed for the job of LONDON cabbie, Andy McNab writes the Queen's CHRISTMAS message, and Puff Daddy delivers Alastair Cooke's Letter from America. With Mark Steel, Dillie Keane, David Stafford and Linda Smith ... |
| Breakfast In Brighton | ...Stephen Tomkinson stars in Nigel Richardson's dramatisation of his bestselling novel. Blending fact and fiction, its is a funny and surreal tribute to the technicoloured town of Brighton. Featuring Peter Gunn, Joanne Goode, Maggie McCarthy and Denys Jameson. With cameos from Julie Burchill, Derek Jameson and SIMON FANSHAWE... |
| Bridging The Gap | ...SIMON FANSHAWE visits the On The Streets project in Gorton, Manchester. An ambitious community project run by Pat Stewart and Rob Burley. Their aim is to develop in the young teenagers a sense of their community, and show them there is more to life than spiralling from ASBO to serious crime.... |
| Brief Encounters At The Brighton Festival | ...Presented by SIMON FANSHAWE. Throughout the week a dozen writers celebrate the short story at the Brighton Festival. Featuring Bill Brodie, Susannah Dunn, Kate O'Riordan, Toby Litt, Rosie Thomas and others.... |
| Brighton Caricatures | ...By SIMON FANSHAWE. The life of the ARCHITECT who designed the controversial block of flats on Brighton's Regency seafront. Read by Peter Marinker ... |
| Christmas Gander, A | ...SIMON FANSHAWE presents a nostalgic trip through the radio arcHIVes in search of the CHRISTMAS spirit. From the very first Royal CHRISTMAS broadcast in 1932 to Spike Milligan, Bing Crosby, Joyce Grenfell and the Osmonds, he wallows in memories of CHRISTMASes gone by.... |
| Comedy Controller, The | ...SIMON FANSHAWE... |
| Cooking The Books | ...SIMON FANSHAWE and guests sample the cuisine of literature.... |
| Endangered Sounds | ...SIMON FANSHAWE examines the idea of a changing soundscape and asks whether we care about the passing of evocative sounds, and looks at which sounds will immortalise the 21st Century.... |
| Englishman, A Scotsman, An Irishman And A Welshman, An | ...National stereotypes are sustained, perhaps created by jokes. SIMON FANSHAWE presents a four-part series on the comedy of national identity. 1: `An Englishman'. From Max Miller to Lily Savage, Norman Evans to Les Dawson, these comics re-create their working-class roots while they mock the gentility of the middle classes.... |
| Fanshawe Gets To The Bottom Of | ...On one of the great party nights of the year, SIMON FANSHAWE and Bill Wallis stay at home and treat themselves to a cornucopia of comedy, quotations, literature and laughter. Noel Coward, Julian and Sandy and Jasper Carrot are among those who join in the fun.... |
| From The Cape Flats With Laughs | ...SIMON FANSHAWE accompanies comic Marc Lottering on a tour of the South Africa that Marc grew up in. As one of the first coloured comedians to gain a national profile, his character comedy reflects the lives of a large part of the country's population whose portrayal had previously been the domain of white comics impersonating them.... |
| Gothic Cathedral, A | ...SIMON FANSHAWE tells the story of `Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases', the retirement project of Peter Mark Roget, an eminent Victorian with a passion for order, organisation and classification.... |
| Laughter From The Edge | ...SIMON FANSHAWE, who was once banned from entering South Africa, returns to the country to take a fresh look at the comedy circuit and how it has evolved since the early 1960s.... |
| Lowest Form Of Wit | ...In the first of two programmes, SIMON FANSHAWE explores sarcasm, discovering the significance of saying the opposite of what one means in politics, literature, comedy and song.... |
| Motion Show, The | ...The comic debating show returns to tackle the key issues of the day. Dr Phil Hammond presides over a battle of comic heavyweights between Tony Hawks, SIMON FANSHAWE and Steve Punt ... |
| Next Question Please! | ...SIMON FANSHAWE finds out how the nation's question setters manage to keep up with the insatiable demand for quizzes on radio, television, and pubs.... |
| Off The Page | ...With pubs all over Britain closing at a rate of 52 per week, the role of the public house is called in to question by three writers who have spent many hours propping up the bar. Ian Marchant went on a nationwide pub crawl and wrote a book about his adventures, SIMON FANSHAWE remembers winding up the locals in 1970s Brighton, and Melissa Cole, who is also a professional beer taster, deconstructs one of the key phrases in drinking culture: 'fancy a pint?' Presented by Dominic Arkwright.... |
| Pick Of The Week | ...SIMON FANSHAWE presents his selection of excerpts from BBC Radio over the past seven days.... |
| Quote Unquote | ...Nigel Rees exchanges quotations and anecdotes with guests Jenny Colgan, SIMON FANSHAWE, Andrew Mueller and Paula Wilcox ... |
| Reference Library | ...SIMON FANSHAWE investigates the histories of great reference books. 1: `Whitaker's Almanack'. Joseph Whitaker founded the Bookseller magazine and wrote religious tracts for prisoners. Then he turned a newspaper column into a bumper book of facts that took Victorian England by storm.... |
| Roar!!! | ...More than half of all the sounds in a wildlife documentary are generated artificially. So be prepared for a few surprises as SIMON FANSHAWE lifts the lid on some of the bizarre techniques used to mimic the noises of the natural world. Find out why created audio is often superior to the real thing, and why a pillow case full of corn flour and a pair of rubber gloves are essential props in the BBC Natural History Unit's dubbing theatre.... |
| Taking Notes | ...In the first of three programmes, SIMON FANSHAWE talks to writer Jackie Kay about her love of the music of Bessie Smith, which inspired her to write a sequence of poems, a play and, more recently, a biography, about the life of this blues queen.... |
| Talent To Muse, A | ...Writer, broadcaster and comedian SIMON FANSHAWE examines the art of creating comedy and analyses the work of the writers behind the success of some of the world's most popular comic characters.... |
| Tracking The Lincolnshire Poacher | ...A wild journey to the outer limits of radio cryptography and espionage as SIMON FANSHAWE enters the clandestine world of shortwave Number stations.... |
| Where In The World? | ...Simon Brett, SIMON FANSHAWE and Clare Nasir ... |
| Whispers | ...Archers star Charles Collingwood and Radio 4 favourite SIMON FANSHAWE join Anthony Holden and Lucy Moore on Whispers today. Neither are strangers to scandal which is just as well as Gyles Brandreth will be testing their wits (and wit) on subjects such as Lillie Langtry's lovers, John Lee Hooker's girlfriends and Edward II's enemies.... |
| Wireless Wise | ...Margaret Howard, SIMON FANSHAWE, Helen Lederer, Graham Seed... |
| X Marks The Spot | ...David Stafford presents the cryptic quiz show in the form of a countrywide treasure hunt. With Hilary Kay, SIMON FANSHAWE and David Edwards ... |