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Comedians confess
The week’s best comedy on TV and radio.
Sunday January 31
ELVIS MCGONAGALL - FULL TARTAN JACKET: The stand-up poet, comedian and armchair revolutionary performs his satirical verse in the latest of Radio 4’s stand-up specials.
Radio 4, 7.15pm
RHOD GILBERT: STAND UP TO FERTILITY: A network outing for the comedian’s entertaining yet important documentary about male fertility following its BBC One Wales outing last week. Read our review here.
Monday February 1
BRUSH STROKES: The Drama channel is showing John Esmonde and Bob Larbey s sitcom about the misadventures of a jack-the-lad painter Jacko, played by Karl Howman, from the very beginning. The show originally ran for 40 episodes on BBC One from 1986 to 1991.
In March 2020 the creative industries shut down; film and television production ground to a halt, high-profile releases were pulled, and theatres closed their doors. In the world of Cambridge theatre, the ADC remained closed until the return of students in October, then closed again for the second national lockdown. Other venues like the Corpus Playroom and Pembroke New Cellars remain shut.
For Murray Edwards student Hannah Collins, the widespread cancellation of productions was “the inspiration and impetus for seeing that there was a vacuum that could be filled.” In collaboration with like-minded students Fabienne Marshall and Ele Forsdyke, she founded the collective Cambridge Creatives. They saw the opportunity that the respite of lockdown offered, and by May had begun a series of livestreamed Q&As with notable guests including actor Jonathan Pryce, composer Erran Baron Cohen, and screenwriter Rachel Flowerday.
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