Peter Kay

Given his gift for sprawling anecdotage, chopping the adolescent life of Danny Baker into half-hourly chunks must have been some task, but that's exactly what Baker and Jeff Pope have done here, telling the tale of Baker's Bermondsey circa 1974. With family life dominated by uncompromising patriarch Fred (played arrestingly by Peter Kay), teenage life is far from easy for the wideboy wordsmith. Despite a premise not dissimilar to Only Fools And Horses precursor Rock & Chips, this is a promising period piece.

Radio Times review

In the 1970s, young Danny Bakers chaotic east London home was always packed with knocked-off gear secured by his lairy geezer of a docker dad. Once, most memorably, continental quilts (that's duvets to you, young people): "It was like living in a huge bag of marshmallows," says 15-year-old Danny in the voiceover.

Baker and writer Jeff Pope have adapted Baker's autobiography Going to Sea in a Sieve into this cheerful eight-part comedy, headed by Peter Kay who ditches those rich Lancashire tones for a gorblimey cockney accent as dad Spud.

Spud always has an eye to the main chance, pinching from the cargo holds of ships he unloads at the docks. There's a funny scene when he and his mates steal a snifter from a barrel of what they think contains booze. "Trust me," says Spud, to his understandably sceptical friends.

Cradle To Grave preview: Peter Kay is fabulous

In this charming sitcom, it's the 1970s and 15-­year­-old Danny guides us through the ups and down of life growing up in a council flat in Bermondsey.

Cradle to Grave: Peter Kay stars in uneven adaptation

The main problem I had was that Baker couldn't really decide which story from his childhood to tell, so he decided to pick half a dozen.

Danny Baker defends Peter Kay's cockney accent

Surprised by Peter Kay's 'Gor blimey!' Cockney accent in BBC Two's Cradle To Grave? Series creator Danny Baker says you'll get used to it.

Why I want to Car Share with Peter Kay

If my commute included congestion charges or my workplace offered significant incentives for riding with colleagues, I would definitely want Peter Kay as my car share comrade.

Behind the scenes: Car Share, BBC1

A complicated five-camera rig was required to shoot Peter Kay's latest comedy series.

Is Peter Kay's Forever FM based on my radio station?

So why are my bosses raising an eyebrow over Forever FM? Watch the next episode, then listen to Wave 105 - it's virtually identical!

Peter Kay's Car Share review

The everyday, back-and-forth of the conversation is rendered so enjoyable that you wish you could be a spectator to it more often.