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Behind the Footlights

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

First of two programmes.
Of all the famous schools for comedy, none has a reputation to to equal that of the Cambridge Footlights. Their list of graduates includes Jonathan Miller, David Frost, Peter Cook, John Cleese, Griff Rhys Jones and Emma Thompson. Who are the Footlights?
Tim Brooke-Taylor, a former Footlights president, goes back to Cambridge, following the fortunes of the class of 89 and joins them for the climax of the Footlights' year: the performance of their annual revue at the Edinburgh Festival.
(First shown in BBC South and East. 'Back and Beyond' tomorrow at 8.00pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Picture Editor:
Michael Stokes
Producer:
David Harrington
Source: Radio Times

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