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Eric Idle

Eric Idle

  • 82 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, director, composer and comedian

Press clippings Page 13

There's also "Radio 5" (Radio 1, Saturday). It's mostly Monty Python-type jokes, which involve a certain amount of the BBC sending itself up, and a good helping of straight lunacy. Eric Idle, who conducts the proceedings with an astonishing range of voices, seems to know all about our secret fantasy lives, which produces some of the best bits.

Val Arnold-Forster, The Guardian, 13th April 1974

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