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Comedy Map of Britain

Series 2

Episode 1: Nottingham to Norwich

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Alan Whicker narrates a spirited journey around the UK, pinpointing the special places that have inspired and affected our major comic talents. Alan Carr goes back to the football ground in Northampton that inspired his stand up, Ruby Wax and Juliet Stevenson return to Stratford RSC where Ruby was a budding Shakespearean actor and David Baddiel revisits Haberdashers School where he first performed in a controversial sixth form revue. Plus, Mel and Sue go back to the Cambridge Footlights Club where they first met and performed as a duo, and Fluck and Law give us a tour of the workshop in Cambridge where they developed the idea and the puppets for Spitting Image. Show less

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