Spitting In Russian. Roger Law
Spitting In Russian

Spitting In Russian

  • Radio documentary
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2010
  • 1 episode

Spitting Image co-creator Roger Law heads to Moscow to find out what happened to plans to make a Russian version of the satirical show. Features Roger Law.

Key details

Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
2010
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Features
Roger Law
Producers
Mark Rickards

At the height of its success in the Eighties, satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image was commanding audiences around the world. The Russians decided that they would like to have their own version of the satirical show and a mysterious fax landed on the desk of its co-creator, Roger Law. Then a team arrived from Moscow to learn the magic art of making political puppets. Roger went to Moscow to help set up the show, and can remember vodka with breakfast and not very much else.

Roger decides that now is the time to dig out the paperwork from 20 years ago and head off to Moscow again on a mission to find out what happened to the TV producers and to their satirical ambitions.

Armed only with a handful of faxes, letters and a puppet of Mikhail Gorbachev for company, he heads to the bitter cold of a Moscow winter and discovers more than he bargained for.

This is a story of intrigue, betrayal, international espionage and rubber puppets!

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Friday 1st January 2010 at 11am on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
30 minutes
Most recent repeats
  • Tuesday 7th September 2021 at 2:30am on Radio 4 Extra
  • Monday 6th September 2021 at 2:30pm on Radio 4 Extra
  • Friday 22nd November 2019 at 1:30am on Radio 4 Extra

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