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.
The Interviews
- Season 2
- 6 episodes
- Arts and culture
Episode 1: Peter Sellers
Summary
The life of Peter Sellers, a man of a thousand voices, who became famous on radio as one of The Goons, and then in the movies where comic creations such as Inspector Clouseau brought him international stardom. Combining some remarkably frank disclosures with hilarious and revealing archive material - much of it filmed by Sellers himself - the programme offers a retrospective of Sellars' career and private life told in his own words via interviews he gave at the time. Narrated by Tamsin Greig
Review
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.
How to watch
Next showing
| channel | time | status |
|---|---|---|
GOLD  | - | |
GOLD HD  | - | |
GOLD +1  | - |
Details
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- Formats
- Colour | HD | SUB | WIDE
Credits
Crew
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Tamsin Greig |
| Executive producer | John Quinn |
All episodes
Episode 1
Peter Sellers
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The life of Peter Sellers, a man of a thousand voices, who became famous on radio as one of The Goons, and then in the movies where comic creations such as Inspector Clouseau brought him international stardom. Combining some remarkably frank disclosures with hilarious and revealing archive material - much of it filmed by Sellers himself - the programme offers a retrospective of Sellars' career and private life told in his own words via interviews he gave at the time. Narrated by Tamsin GreigReview
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.
How to watch
Next showing
channel time status GOLD
-GOLD HD
-GOLD +1
-Details
- Languages
- Formats
- Colour | HD | SUB | WIDE
Credits
Crew
role name Narrator Tamsin Greig Executive producer John Quinn
