One Foot In The Grave - A Celebration Of A Comedy Classic

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One Foot in the Grave: A Celebration of a Comedy Classic

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Victor Meldrew would never believe it! A celebration of the hit comedy.

Victor Meldrew would never believe it! A celebration of the hit comedy. With Doreen Mantle (aka Mrs Warboys). From 2014.

Would you believe it? 

In January 1990, BBC TV broadcast the very first episode of One Foot In The Grave, much of it filmed along England's South Coast.

Doreen Mantle - who played Mrs Warboys – looks back at the history of the classic TV sitcom starring Richard Wilson and Annette Crosbie about the ever grumpy Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife Margaret.  

It ran for 6 series, plus festive specials and selected episodes were adapted for BBC radio.

Featuring: 

Richard Wilson
Annette Crosbie
Angus Deayton
Series writer, David Renwick
Producer, Susan Belbin

Producer: Richard Latto

First broadcast on BBC Radio Solent in December 2014.

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