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Front Row: Former Python Terry Jones, young James Herriot and Morse on TV

Former Python Terry Jones, young James Herriot and Morse on TV

16/12/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Former Python Terry Jones, young James Herriot and Morse on TV

Former Python Terry Jones; young James Herriot and Morse on TV; old carols in new clothes.

Former Python Terry Jones on his new book; Christmas carols which deserve to be better known; and two new TV dramas about the young James Herriot and the young Inspector Morse.

With Mark Lawson. 

Former Monty Python star Terry Jones has now written 26 books. His latest, Evil Machines, is a collection of 13 short stories which explore what happens when everyday objects take on a life of their own. He discusses the inspiration for the book, life as a Python and his relationship with the group now.

The young lives of James Herriot and Inspector Morse will soon arrive on our TV screens. Glasgow in the 1930s is the setting for the adventures of James Herriot as an idealistic student vet; and Endeavour turns the clock back to 1965, when the young Morse is in Oxford to hunt for a missing schoolgirl. Rebecca Nicholson and Chris Dunkley assess the new portrayals of two much-loved TV characters.

And conductor Jeremy Summerly gives an illustrated guide at the keyboard to those underrated Christmas carols which deserve to be better known. 

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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