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Great Lives: Tony Hancock

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Poet Pam Ayres chooses the lad himself, Tony Hancock.

Poet Pam Ayres chooses the lad himself, Tony Hancock. With Matthew Parris and Tony's biographer John Fisher. From January 2009.

Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris.

Poet Pam Ayres nominates Tony Hancock as her great life and the comic actor's biographer John Fisher is the expert witness.

Produced by Beatrice Fenton.

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2009.

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