5. John Cleese on Fawlty Towers
John Cleese shares the inside story of a sitcom masterpiece with TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman. From 2021.
Comedy legend John Cleese discusses his ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TV sitcom masterpiece, Fawlty Towers.
He's sharing the inside story with TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman.
John traces the beginnings of Basil Fawlty all the way back to his work on Monty Python (βnice though the abattoir isβ¦β), and talks about the real hotelier who inspired the character.
He tells us about the writing and casting of the show, and discusses some of the challenges of bringing a character like Fawlty to the screen.
And John talks about the doomed American effort to remake Fawlty , but with one tiny change β the leading character Basil was written out!
Producer: Owen Braben
Made for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra by Expectation Productions, and first broadcast in October 2021.
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- Wed 20 Oct 2021 11:30ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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