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Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side

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Surreal poetic sitcom. Elvis McGonagall goes in search of a positive side to life.

Surreal poetic sitcom. Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary, comedian and broadcaster Elvis McGonagall goes in search of a positive side to life.

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Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side: Series 1

Clarke Peters

Richard Smith

Susan Morrison

Lewis MacLeod

Gabriel Quigley

Frank Stirling

Helen Braunholtz-Smith

Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side: Series 1: Episode 1: A Dog's Dinner

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Episode 1: A Dog's Dinner

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A Dog's Dinner

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What's so good about haute cuisine and celebrity chefs?

4 Extra Debut. What's so good about haute cuisine and celebrity chefs? Can Elvis change his dyspeptic view of life? With Clarke Peters. From April 2014.

Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary, comedian and broadcaster Elvis McGonagall (aka poet and performer Richard Smith) is determined to do something about his bitter, dyspeptic and bloody minded view of contemporary life. There are good things out there, if he could only be bothered to find them. 

From his home in the Graceland Park near Dundee, the Scottish punk poet goes in search of the brighter side of life. With the help of his dog,Trouble, his friend, Susan Morrison, and his own private narrator, Clarke Peters, Elvis does his very best to accentuate the positive - he really does. Recorded almost entirely on location, in a caravan on a truly glamorous industrial estate somewhere in Scotland.

In the first episode, A Dog's Dinner, Elvis finds out what's so good about haute cuisine and celebrity chefs.

As Elvis, poet Richard Smith is the 2006 World Poetry Slam Champion, the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran Club and appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 ("Saturday Live", the "Today Programme", "Arthur Smith's Balham Bash", "Last Word", "Off The Page" and others as well as writing and presenting the popular arts features "Doggerel Bard" on the art of satiric poetry and "Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills" on the extraordinary resonance of A.E. Housman's 'Shropshire Lad')

Written by Elvis MacGonagall, with Richard Smith, Helen Braunholtz-Smith and Frank Stirling.

Producer: Frank Stirling
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Comic poet Elvis McGonagall tries to change his view of life.

Stand-up poet and armchair revolutionary Elvis McGonagall tries to change his dyspeptic view of life, with the help of Susan Morrison and his personal narrator Clarke Peters.

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