Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 1971 - 1972
- 17 episodes (2 series)
Sketch show starring Ronnie Barker. Also features Terence Brady and Pauline Yates.
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
Here's a cornucopia of clever comedy, featuring sketches, monologues, poems and songs in this 'sequential entertainment for radio'. Among the sketches, Mr Serpent, a sales rep in the Garden of Eden, tries to flog a knowledge course to Eve ('one bite and you're a PhD'). A doctor has to give some bad news, but gets more emotional than the patient, and there's love among the road reports. There's an exclusive interview with 'Charlie Chaplin', some lavatory humour (a sketch set in a manager's washroom), how to learn babytalk and 'Analysis Through the Looking-Glass'. A baptism causes naming problems, while among the songs is "What Am I Going To Do About You?" ("You're like Everest with all its icy crags, I don't think I'll get over you somehow"). Co-written by Gerald Wiley (a pseudonym used by Ronnie Barker), David Nobbs and Harold Pinter, this sophisticated cabaret-cum-sketch-show contains plenty of witty wordplay, and is vintage Ronnie Barker. Starring Ronnie, with Terence Brady, Pauline Yates & Gordon Langford.
This 2 CD set contains 4 episodes of the comedy sketch show, as heard on BBC Radio 4.
First released: Monday 13th September 2010
- Distributor: BBC Audiobooks
- Catalogue: 9781408467381
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