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Barry Cryer at 80

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29/10/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Barry Cryer at 80

An all-star gala in celebration of Barry Cryer's 80th birthday.

Highlights of the all-star gala thrown to honour comedy writer and performer Barry Cryer as he turns 80.

Barry Cryer is one of the most significant figures in British comedy. He wrote for Danny La Rue, David Frost and Morecambe & Wise, and has been a fixture on television and radio since the 1960s. He is of course best-known, and best beloved, to the Radio 4 audience for his work on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the "antidote to panel games" which has been running since 1972.

To mark Barry's 80th birthday his son, Bob Cryer, organised a gala performance at the Palace Theatre in London's West End, in aid of one of Barry's favourite charities. Radio 4 is delighted to present a selection of highlights from the evening, which sees friends, family, contemporaries and other acts he loves assemble to pay tribute to the man the comedy world knows simply as "Uncle Baz".

Producer ... Ed Morrish
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