Listening to Les Dawson
Les Dawson celebration with Ray Peacock. Featuring Ken Dodd, Neil Innes, Lee Mack and others. From 2013.
Ray Peacock and friends celebrate the comedian Les Dawson.
Featuring rare interviews and routines.
Archive includes:
Listen To Les
Marriott's Monologues
Tubby The Tuba
In The Psychiatrist's Chair
Les reading his own novel, Come Back With The Wind.
With:
Ken Dodd
Neil Innes
Lee Mack
Robin Ince
Gillian Reynolds
David Nobbs
Producer: Laura Grimshaw
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in September 2013
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In the Psychiatrist's Chair
An honest and open interview recorded the week before Les Dawson's death in June 1993.
Duration: 40:00
Come Back with the Wind
Les Dawson reads the first part of his own novel, published in 1991.
Duration: 15:00
Whirligig: Tubby The Tuba
Les Dawson performs the Hans Christian Andersen story Tubby The Tuba.
Duration: 18:00
Marriot’s Monologues
Les Dawson performs Marriot Edgar’s monologues.
Duration: 15:00
Listen to Les
A compilation episode of the Radio 2 series starring Les Dawson.
Duration: 27:00
Listening to Les Dawson - Featured programmes
The Listening to Les Dawson special features the following archive programmes, alongside specially recorded interviews with people who knew him, worked with him or just love his work, including Robin Ince, Lee Mack, David Nobbs, Ken Dodd, Neil Innes and Gillian Reynolds:
In the Psychiatrist's Chair (c. 40 minutes)
Les Dawson speaks to Dr. Anthony Clare in an honest and open interview recorded the week before his death in June 1993.
Come Back with the Wind (c. 15 minutes)
Les Dawson reads the first part of his own novel, published in 1991. You can hear the rest of the story throughout next week, weekday afternoons at 14:45 on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Whirligig: Tubby The Tuba (c. 18 minutes)
Les Dawson performs the Hans Christian Andersen story Tubby The Tuba with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Marriot’s Monologues (c. 15 minutes)
Les Dawson performs Marriot Edgar’s monologues The Channel Swimmer and The Recumbent Posture
Listen to Les (c. 27 minutes)
A compilation episode of the Radio 2 series starring Les Dawson with Roy Barraclough, Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn.Broadcasts
- Sat 14 Sep 201309:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 14 Sep 201319:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 14 Feb 201509:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 14 Feb 201519:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 9 Jun 201809:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 9 Jun 201819:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 30 Nov 201909:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 30 Nov 201919:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 13 Feb 202109:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 13 Feb 202119:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 5 Nov 202209:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Sat 5 Nov 202219:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
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