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Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
The writers of TV sitcoms The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet talk to Matthew Sweet.
The writers of TV sitcoms The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet talk to Matthew Sweet. As a restoration of the film version of The Likely Lads is released, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais discuss depicting working lives in the 1960s, the pretensions and social changes of the '70s and how their characters might have voted over Brexit.
The Likely Lads film has been restored and made available on Blu-ray and two previously lost episodes of the TV series have been found.
Producer: Craig Templeton Smith
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Wed 27 Mar 201922:00
BBC Radio 3
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