LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Richard Littlejohn show

Genre

Interview; News bulletin; Phone-in; Advertisement; Jingle

TX Date

18 Aug 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:57:29

Description

Frank Bough (standing in for Richard Littlejohn) interviews broadcaster and satirist Sir David Frost coinciding with the publication of the first part of his autobiography, From Congregations to Audiences. On his television career and dividing his time between the United States and the UK; turning down a football career with Nottingham Forest; time at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and links with the Footlights drama society; work on groundbreaking satirical show, That Was the Week That Was (TW3); his interviewing technique.The programme then looks at an ITV programme on prison suicide, The Life and Death of Philip Knight, including an interview with producer/director, Peter Kosminsky. Also includes advertisements (including voices of (poss.) Derek Nimmo; Leslie Phillips); traffic news (with Lynn Bowles); news bulletin (read by Roger Walker; report by Mark Phillips; interview with Des Lawless, Bedfordshire Police); financial news; jingles; phone-in competition. On LBC Newstalk.

Contributors

Frank Bough; David Frost; Mark Phillips; Roger Walker; LBC Newstalk; Lynn Bowles; Derek Nimmo?; Leslie Phillips; Peter Kosminsky

Keywords

Books; USA; Suicide; UK; Great Britain; Prisons; Television; Association football; Football players; Autobiographies; Broadcasters; Television documentaries; Satire; David Frost; Biographies; Cambridge University; That was the Week That Was; Footlights; Nottingham Forest; From Congregations to Audiences; Philip Knight; The Life and Death of Philip Knight

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