Class
As a middle-class child of working-class parents, Andy considers class, recalling some bumps up against the system. From 2019.
More potentially misremembered anecdotes from Andy Hamilton.
Andy concludes his series by considering class.
As a middle-class child of working-class parents he recalls some of his bumps up against the class system at university and at work, and suggests comedy is a better mirror of class than drama ever has been.
Andy was born in Fulham in 1954, read English at Cambridge and then in 1976 began writing comedy for ±«Óãtv Radio, on programmes like Week Ending and The News Huddlines. In 1990, he and Guy Jenkin created Drop the Dead Donkey for Channel 4.
Andy has spent much of his working life making acute observations about politics and family life.
In 2007, again with Guy Jenkin, he created the massive TV hit, Outnumbered, which celebrated the chaos of life with young children. More recently they created the highly topical Ballot Monkeys for Channel 4, which charted the absurdities of the General Election and then the EU Referendum.
For over 20 years he has been playing the part of Satan in his Radio 4 sitcom, Old Harry's Game. Andy is also a popular panellist on shows such as The News Quiz and Have I Got News For You.
Producer: Claire Jones
A ±«Óãtv Studios production for ±«Óãtv Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2019.
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