a year of events to celebrate france's most famous playwright, moliere, are getting underway. it's the 400th anniversary of moliere's baptism; his birthdate isn't known. although he is considered the father of french theatre, his influence has been felt across the world. including here in the uk. earlier the bbc spoke to bafta—winning aneel gupta, the man behind famous comedies including the office and citizan khan. he told us about his experience adapting moliere's play tartuffe into a story about a british—pakistani family in modern—day birmingham. i was thinking, a 400—year—old, coat, comedy, those are not really things that go together necessarily in my mind so i was very pleasantly surprised at how funny i found it and the realjoy how funny i found it and the real joy of it how funny i found it and the realjoy of it and the real genius of molly, actually, is the comic structure, you know. when you are constructing a force, which this is, essentially, it is an incredibly intricate and very