Rather You Than Me

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David Walliams

Rafe Spall

Melanie Hill

Peter Sandys-Clarke

Sally Leonard

Paul Anderson

Benedict Martin

Chris New

Peter Harness

Paul Courtenay-Hyu

David Reed

Tom Allen

Ben Evans

John Alexander

Drama: Biographical

09/04/2008

BBC Four - Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me

Drama about Frankie Howerd's relationship with his manager and partner, Dennis Heymer.

Drama starring David Walliams as the comedian Frankie Howerd, looking at the relationship with his long-term, long-suffering manager and partner, Dennis Heymer.

Candid and poignant drama about the comedian Frankie Howerd and the relationship with his long-term, long-suffering manager, and gay partner, Dennis Heymer. Despite his overtly camp persona, Howerd kept his companionship with Heymer under wraps for 35 years, until his death in 1992. Yet through career disaster, social stigma, illegality, numerous infidelities and Howerd's own deep-seated issues about his homosexuality, their love endured.

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