Summary
Season 2 features spliced together interviews of Peter Sellers, Barry Humphries, Frankie Howerd, Julie Walters, Bruce Forsyth and Kenny Everett taken from various TV chat shows.
Season 2 features spliced together interviews of Peter Sellers, Barry Humphries, Frankie Howerd, Julie Walters, Bruce Forsyth and Kenny Everett taken from various TV chat shows.
The series of compelling archive footage of comedians in conversation returns with the man of a thousand voices, Peter Sellers. From the moment the show opens to the weedy strains of The Goon Show’s Bluebottle you know you’re in for a riot of laughter – Sellers’s story about meeting the man Bluebottle was based on will have you in stitches.
It’s fascinating to watch the transition from plumpish Goon to urbane Hollywood star with a weakness for beautiful women. But the real story is how Sellers’s masterful mimicry and characterisation hid his insecurities about how dull he was in real life. If that’s true, thank goodness for dull Peter.
role | name |
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Narrator | Tamsin Greig |
Executive producer | John Quinn |
Peter Sellers
The series of compelling archive footage of comedians in conversation returns with the man of a thousand voices, Peter Sellers. From the moment the show opens to the weedy strains of The Goon Show’s Bluebottle you know you’re in for a riot of laughter – Sellers’s story about meeting the man Bluebottle was based on will have you in stitches.
It’s fascinating to watch the transition from plumpish Goon to urbane Hollywood star with a weakness for beautiful women. But the real story is how Sellers’s masterful mimicry and characterisation hid his insecurities about how dull he was in real life. If that’s true, thank goodness for dull Peter.
role | name |
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Narrator | Tamsin Greig |
Executive producer | John Quinn |