The Real Comedy Controllers:  The Things That Made Us Laugh

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The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh

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Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville select their top comedy moments.

Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville select their top comedy moments starting after the Second World War.

The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh: Alternative Comedy...and Beyond: 3. Goodness Gracious Me and On the Hour

3. Goodness Gracious Me and On the Hour

Alternative Comedy...and Beyond

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Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville look at 80s alternative comedy.

Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville return to the alternative comedy of the 1980s.

BBC Comedy Controllers from across the decades look back at radio shows from the past.

Clocking up over 150 years on the job between them, Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville reveal what they do, why they do it and what makes them laugh.

From London's iconic BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House - the home of British Radio comedy.

In the last of three programmes, they travel back to the 1980s to celebrate alternative comedy.

Featuring:
 
Goodness Gracious Me - from 18th January 1997 - BBC Radio 4 

On The Hour - from 9th August 1991 - BBC Radio 4  

The League of Gentlemen Charity Shop:   sketch - 21st November - BBC Radio 4

Round the Horne: - Rambling Syd Rumpo - 15th January 1967  - BBC Light Programme

Series Producers: Paul Kobrak and Dixi Stewart.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in April 2017.

The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh: Alternative Comedy...and Beyond

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