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Radio Lives: 4: Winning without Actually Cheating

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Six portraits of great radio figures.
Stephen Potter was an innovative radio satirist who wrote Oneupmanship, a chancer's guide to life, and became a celebrity.
Mark Lawson looks at the effect fame had on him, and asks why humorists are so quickly forgotten.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Producer:
Hamish Mykura
Source: Radio Times

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