What's Funny About . .

BBC Radio 4

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TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the writers, producers, and performers behind Britain’s biggest TV comedy hits, and hear the inside story of how they brought their programmes to the screen. The TV comedies covered are:    The Vicar of Dibley    The Thick Of It    Absolutely Fabulous    Blackadder    Goodness Gracious Me    W1A    The Office    Have I Got News For You    Smack The Pony    Not The Nine O'Clock News    Fawlty Towers    The Good Life    Catastrophe    The Fast Show    One Foot in the Grave    Green Wing    Derry Girls    Alas Smith and Jones With Peter and Jon as our guides, they take the opportunity to ask quite how our guests went about making a great bit of TV comedy. Who came up with it? How did it get written? They talk about the commissioning, the casting, and the reception the show received when it first aired. They do their very best to winkle out some backstage secrets straight from the horse’s mouth, as we hear the unvarnished truth from the people who were there, and who put these iconic shows on TV. Producer: Owen Braben First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in March 2020

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.