Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg’s notebook: I found hell on Regent Street

Plus: John Lloyd's stand-up return, and why a listener sent a photo of gingerbread to In Our Time

issue 14 December 2013
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John Lloyd, producer of Blackadder, Spitting Image, QI etc, has boldly picked up where he left off at Cambridge more than 40 years ago. He has gone back to his youthful passion for stand-up. I’m making a South Bank Show about him and last week I went to Ealing Town Hall.

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