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January 9, 2021peter cook

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly comedyderek and clivefree speechhumourpete and dudpeter cooksatire

February 26, 2017peter cook

Chuffed to come across this recently broadcast (previously blocked) programme. Among the featured gems are The Dead Sea Tapes, Peter’s views on religion, his taste in reading and much more besides. I have a chum who used to live around the corner from Perrin’s Walk in Ellerdale Road, near the convent (or was it a girls school) mentioned in…

November 18, 2016peter cook

The Undiscovered Peter Cook

Hopefully this will find its way onto youtube. “Following the death of Britain’s greatest satirist in 1995, Peter Cook’s widow Lin locked the door of his house and refused all access to the media. Until this year, when she invited her friend Victor Lewis-Smith and a BBC crew inside to make a documentary about the…

January 9, 2015peter cook

Peter Cook

This genius died 20 years ago. Check out the documentary Peter Cook At A Slight Angle To The Universe. Also John Bird’s obit. The direction his work took had nothing whatever to do with marketing a talent, finding a niche, developing a career. It had everything to do with a compulsive articulation of his view of…