British Comedy Guide

The magical number three

Fiddlers Three

Micheál Jacob's long career as an executive producer and script editor encompasses a plethora of television and radio comedies, including Birds Of A Feather, Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, Goodnight Sweetheart, My Family, Eyes Down, Thieves Like Us, The Smoking Room, Not For Turning and Dead Canny.

There's something almost mystical in the way that the number three is embedded across humanity. From the Holy Trinity to third time lucky, from being told to try, try and try again if at first you don't succeed, to the golden mean - the middle or third way between...

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