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  1. Just One More Thing: Columbo!

    Peter McHugh

    Producer

    The raincoat, the cigar, the spluttering convertible car, the villain's deed in the first scene and the final "...just one more thing". The American TV detective series Columbo was a literature inspired, award-winning, rule-breaking, television original spanning over thirty years. It turned ...

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  2. Ten remarkable guests from John Freeman's Face to Face

    Steve Bowbrick

    Head of Interactive, Radio 3

    1. Tony Hancock Tony Hancock opened tonight's Archive on 4 about Face to Face, the hugely influential interview programme that ran on BBC television from 1959 to 1962. In the programme, produced by Chris Ledgard, Sue MacGregor interviews producer and creator of the programme Hugh Burnet...

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  3. The legendary lost Men Behaving Badly pilot

    Paul Jackson

    Whilst working on this week's Britain In A Box, I had a rare treat when we managed to obtain a copy of the original, never-broadcast pilot of 'Men Behaving Badly'. The pilot was made for Thames TV, directed by their then Head of Comedy, John Howard Davies and starred the eventual cast of the fir...

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  4. Britain in a Box - landmark television ed

    Paul Kobrak

    ''Serendipity'. Or to be even more direct, 'luck'. Those are the words I most associate with Britain In A Box which returns for a fourth series this Saturday. This is the programme where comedy producer and television executive Paul Jackson delves back into the origins of TV classics and explor...

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  5. New Radio 4 comedy pilots

    Jane Berthoud

    Editor's note: Jane Berthoud is in charge of radio comedy at the BBC. Here's a speech she made on Tuesday in which she announced some interesting new comedy pilots for Radio 4 - SB Miranda Hart, Genius, I've Never Seen Star Wars, Little Britain, League of Gentlemen, Goodness Gracious Me, Alan P...

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  6. Advice of a rather unnatural kind

    Evan Davis

    I can always tell when we've recorded a good edition of The Bottom Line: it is one where I have not had to speak very much. Don't get me wrong. I love speaking. It's what I'm paid to do. And before we record the programme I always make sure that I have plenty to say on the topics we're discus...

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