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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

Helen Braunholtz-Smith

Rupert Ashe

Lewis MacLeod

Gabriel Quigley

Frank Stirling

Elvis McGonagall

Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side: Series 1: Episode 3: Taking Care of Business

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Episode 3: Taking Care of Business

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Taking Care of Business

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Elvis denounces the wage gap and corporate capitalism.

Denouncing the wage gap and corporate capitalism. Can Elvis change his dyspeptic view of life? From May 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.

Episode 3. Taking Care of Business. Elvis rails against the wage gap, franchises, capitalism and corporate nonsense, until he is persuaded that his poetry is a bankable concern. He embarks on the glittering road to profit.

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 AE Housman's 'Shropshire Lad', which was recorded on location as well.

(further info at www.elvismcgonagall.co.uk)

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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