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Whatever Happened To Dick Clement And Ian La Frenais?

  • Radio documentary
  • BBC Radio 3
  • 2019
  • 1 episode

Matthew Sweet talks to the celebrated screenwriters, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

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Key details

Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
2019
Channel
BBC Radio 3
Episodes
1
Features
Matthew Sweet, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais

The writers of TV sitcoms The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet talk to Matthew Sweet. As a restoration of the film version of The Likely Lads is released, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais discuss depicting working lives in the 1960s, the pretensions and social changes of the '70s and how their characters might have voted over Brexit.

Additional details

Also known as
  • Free Thinking: Whatever Happened To Dick Clement And Ian La Frenais?

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Wednesday 27th March 2019 at 10pm on BBC Radio 3
Episode length
45 minutes

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