Thanks to the wonderful Festive Double Issue – Forty Years Of Christmas by Ben Baker, I was reminded of A Life In Pieces. Produced in 1990 by Peter Fincham and John Lloyd for Talkback and the BBC, it featured Ludovic Kennedy interviewing Peter Cook’s Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling.
Using the Twelve Days of Christmas as a loose framing device, it was broadcast for twelve consecutive nights. Cook would later team up with Chris Morris for Why Bother?
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
