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The Reunion: Spitting Image

The Reunion: Spitting Image

  • Radio documentary
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2023
  • 1 episode

Cast and crew of the satirical puppet comedy reunite to tell how the show was made. Features Kirsty Wark, Peter Fluck, Roger Law, Jon Blair, John Lloyd and more.

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Spitting Image. Copyright: Central Independent Television

Key details

Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
2023
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Features
Kirsty Wark, Peter Fluck, Roger Law, Jon Blair, John Lloyd, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman, Louise Gold and more
Producers
David Prest and Mark Rickards
Company

For the 200th edition of The Reunion, Kirsty Wark brings together the original team behind the satirical TV hit of the 1980s, Spitting Image.

Recorded in front of an audience in Cambridge, where the Spitting Image archives are now held by Cambridge University Library, we relive the stories of a show which very nearly didn't happen.

Only when Central Television in Birmingham decided to take a risk with a puppet show for adults did Spitting Image hit the screens. The rest is history.

With co-creators Peter Fluck and Roger Law, producers Jon Blair and John Lloyd, writers Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, puppeteer Louise Gold, voice artists Chris Barrie and Steve Nallon, and the man who made it all possible, Central Television commissioner Charles Denton.

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Additional details

Also known as
  • The Reunion: Spitting Image (200th Episode)
Production
Location

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 3rd September 2023 at 11:15am on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
45 minutes

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