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The Comedy Café

09/09/2011

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Following a 16-year stint at Her Majesty's pleasure, "Bulla", Britain's hardest man, is out of the can and back on the London streets, with an Anglophile American documentary film-maker in tow. Original East End geezer and comedian, Ricky Grover, talks about his explosive comedy character Bulla as he stars in his own feature film, "Big Fat Gypsy Gangster".

The fathers of British sitcom, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, wrote such classics as Hancock's Half Hour, Comedy Playhouse and Steptoe And Son. With unprecedented access to 600 of their classic scripts, author and journalist Christopher Stevens uncovers exclusive material from these two comedy maestros in his book "The Masters of Sitcom".

"Very Old Pretenders", which examines how two Jacobite soldiers view modern Scotland. Show less

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