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J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

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The veteran recounts a TV adaptation where he experienced robbery of a different kind.

The veteran of many parts recounts a disastrous TV adaptation with an American backer. Stars Peter Jones. From June 1986.

The veteran of many parts recounts the story of a scheme to make a fortune from flops which puts "the Producers" to shame.

The doyen of British show business, J Kingston Platt shares reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his experience from the past 40 years.

Performed and written by Peter Jones.

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1986.

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Comedy: Satire

Series of comic monologues written from the perspective of an old showbiz survivor

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