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Fawlty Towers. Polly (Connie Booth). Copyright: BBC
Connie Booth

Connie Booth

  • Actor and writer

Connie Booth features

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Comedy Chronicles: Taking on the tabula rasa: Inside the writing room

Sunday 19th May 2024

Writing comedy. Some like to do it standing up; some prefer sitting down; and others have ended up lying flat out on the floor. Graham McCann examines how some of Britain's finest comic minds got their words down on the page.

Fawlty Towers. Basil Fawlty (John Cleese). Copyright: BBC TV

The making of Fawlty Towers

Sunday 18th September 2016

Fawlty Towers is 41 years-old. Here we look back at how a rude Torbay hotel owner inspired John Cleese and Connie Booth to create one of Britain's best loved sitcoms, and what Basil is up to nowadays.

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