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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Richard Smith

Clarke Peters

Susan Morrison

Roger Lloyd Thompson

Lewis MacLeod

Gabriel Quigley

Helen Braunholtz-Smith

Frank Stirling

Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side: Series 2: Episode 1: Full Tartan Jacket

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Episode 1: Full Tartan Jacket

Series 2

Full Tartan Jacket

BBC Radio 4 - Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side, Series 2, Full Tartan Jacket

Comic poet Elvis McGonagall seeks the bright side of life in his caravan near Dundee.

4 Extra Debut. With a photo shoot for style magazine - will Elvis’s tartan jacket cut the mustard? With Clarke Peters. From August 2015.

Elvis is being photographed for an interview in a style magazine, but will his tartan dinner jacket cut the mustard? And does that shade of mustard really suit him? Can it be that his career as a fashion icon is dead in the water?

Series two of Elvis McGonagall's daft comic world of poems, mad sketches, satire and facetious remarks, broadcast from his home in the Graceland Caravan Park just outside Dundee.

With the hindrance of his dog Trouble and his friend Susan Morrison, Elvis tries hard to accentuate the positive - but the negative has a nasty habit of coming back to roost with the grim regularity of an unimaginative pigeon.

Elvis MacGonagall    ......    Richard Smith
Narrator	    ......    Clarke Peters
Susan    ......    Susan Morrison
Dexter Clarke    ......    Roger Lloyd Thompson

With Lewis MacLeod, Gabriel Quigley and Helen Braunholtz-Smith.


Recorded on location, in a caravan on a truly glamorous industrial estate somewhere in Scotland.

Written by Elvis McGonagall with Helen Braunholtz-Smith and Frank Stirling.

Director: Frank Stirling

A Unique Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2015.

Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side: Series 2

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Comic poet Elvis McGonagall continues his search for the bright side of life.

Stand-up poet and armchair revolutionary Elvis McGonagall continues his search for the bright side of life.

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