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Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman hear the inside story of the biggest TV comedies..

Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman hear the inside story of the biggest TV comedies in Britain.

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What's Funny About ...: Series 1: Goodness Gracious Me - with Meera Syal and Anil Gupta

Goodness Gracious Me - with Meera Syal and Anil Gupta

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - What's Funny About ..., Series 1, Goodness Gracious Me - with Meera Syal and Anil Gupta

Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman hear the inside story of Britain’s biggest TV comedies.

Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman get the inside of story making Goodness Gracious Me. from Meera Syal and Anil Gupta. From 2020.

TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the writers, producers, and performers behind Britain’s biggest TV comedy hits, and hear the inside story of how they brought their programmes to the screen.

In this episode, Peter and Jon talk to Meera Syal and Anil Gupta about their ground breaking sketch show Goodness Gracious Me. 

They discuss show's impact on popular culture and how they feel they were treated by the BBC.

Discover how a broken video camera at their first-ever showcase that meant that Goodness Gracious Me very nearly never happened, and what sort of show Meera thinks the GGM team should get back together and make.   

With Peter and Jon as our guides, we’ll take the opportunity to ask quite how they went about making a great bit of TV comedy. Who came up with it? How did it get written? We’ll talk about the commissioning, the casting, and the reception the show received when it first aired.

We’ll do our very best to winkle out some backstage secrets straight from the horse’s mouth, as we hear the unvarnished truth from the people who were there, and who put these iconic shows on the telly.

Original Goodness Gracious Me clips written by:

Meera Syal 
Sanjeev Bhaskar 
Kulvinder Ghir
Nina Wadia

Producer: Owen Braben

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Expectation Productions, and first broadcast in June 2020.

What's Funny About ...: Series 1

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