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Schedule Monday 1st May 2006

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Life In London

Life In London

Episode 1 - In Training for a Swell

A tour of the sprawling post-Regency metropolis, in the company or narrator Pierce Egan, urbanite Corinthian Tom, his naive Somerset cousin Jerry Hawthorn and their drunken compatriot Bob Logic.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 10:35pm
40 min
Comedy Connections. Copyright: BBC

Comedy Connections

Series 4, Episode 7 - That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was changed not just comedy, but television, as the BBC was being actively disrespectful towards politicians, royalty and religion, all previously seen as untouchable. Among the facts uncovered are: how the programme's working title stuck; how the director letting the cameras be seen on camera was regarded as avant-garde; and how presenter David Frost managed to get the programme scheduled after TW3 was taken off air.

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