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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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Clarke Peters

Richard Smith

Susan Morrison

Lewis MacLeod

Gabriel Quigley

Frank Stirling

Helen Braunholtz-Smith

Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side: Series 2: The State of the Arts

The State of the Arts

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Elvis is struggling to make ends meet, and his dog Trouble likes meat.

Elvis is struggling to make ends meet as everybody now wants a struggling poet to work for free. With Clarke Peters. From 2015.

Elvis is struggling to make ends meet and his dog Trouble likes meat. To add insult to injury everybody wants a struggling poet to work for free these days. Should he compromise himself artistically? Would anybody notice? Or should he diversify? Even if it means working for local wheeler dealer Mr. Szczypkowsky?

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.

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

With Lewis MacLeod and  Gabriel Quigley.

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 September 2015.

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

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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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