Comedy posh twats good. Politician posh twats... self serving, entitled, never worked a day in their life cunt bags.

UPDATE: We have just released the second Song 2 quiz, which can be found here: studio.kzbin.infouSJXlWLOWxw/edit

Some of this is about as funny as piles lol

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Supremely brilliant drama for TV from a time when genuine political confrontation still existed and could be experienced on a daily basis. I watched it when first aired (1981), based on the Malcolm Bradbury novel. Howard Kirk represents the very essence of what was under way, from fake uni' Marxism (1972) to die-hard Thatcherism (1979→). Not a single second (even without original sound) to be missed.

Love this! Thank you!

The latest Footlighters wearing kefirs. No doubt politically correct, self-righteous and utterly humourless.

Great sketch, one of their best.

20:00 Nick Hancock. If anyone ever comes across the 2009 episode of The South Bank Show that featured The Cambridge Footlights, please let me know by replying to this comment.

The Tory government we had in power in 1982 was even madder. Thatcher thought she was God!

As EL Wisty Peter Cook never blinks once. It's remarkable.

John Cleese - the "fat Elvis" years... 😂🤣

Good to see Tony Slattery.

Holy shit Emma Thompson was gorgeous back then!!

Marvellous! Many thanks!

Jennifer was only 25 here in 1983. I was 3. She looks like shw just had a kid.

Great…been wanting to watch this for ages. Thanks for uploading.

There are few things and people that I envy, but I would have sold my soul to have been part of this wonderful community in such a beautiful and noble place, at a great time in history - the 60s through 80s.

Kind of a snapshot of the 1970s - while Kirk marks down the rather stuffy male student for not incorporating Marxism into his work, by the 1990s the opposite process was more likely in academia. Certainly I knew somebody whose use of Marxist analysis did not go down well with his lecturer.

Quite ugly building - the average hospital interior looks nicer.

At least as Antony Sher plays him, Howard Kirk is both rather repulsive and has what I would call a certain charisma.

RIP Richard Baker, David Frost, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Jimmy Edwards, Richard Murdoch, Dudley Moore and Mel Smith. Tony Slattery will never work again because of his mental illness. And Chris Serle, the interviewer, died on 16/09/24.

Utterly priceless! A history of comedy as high art. I never saw this documentary at the time. (I was 29 in 1983.)

19:42 Desky Dennis comes in! And Tony Slattery and Stephen Fry in the historical recreations.

Thanks very much for this upload. I saw this series, when it was first broadcasted and wanted to watch it again since then... I will also show it to my kids and I hope, they will also like it...

Awesome!

An excellent upload, really. Much appreciated.

This was of course the best time ever to be leaving school in ole blighty. I just can't work out how I got to be so cynical.

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Interesting how Sher resembles Machiavelli - by design?

Thanks for uploading. So much better than TV drama today.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Comedy has come a long way.

I think this is my favourite version of this song! 😂

I have recordings of almost al episodes of Radio Active.

phuq 😂

my parents were like the Kirks only my mother was Howard Kirk in the scenario

Sir Michael Hordern is God - saw him on stage in a National Theatre production of the Rivals with the most excellent Geraldine McEwan - he did some business with a hard boiled egg with no dialogue just throat clearing - most amusing

37:02 "all this Anglo-Catholic, classicist, Royalist garbage" cf. Sir Rory Stewart's credo

when the BBC still made excellent television

This has been unavailable to watch for some years, so thanks for posting the episodes. I was an undergrad at Lancaster when this was filmed. The demo scene was filmed in Bowland Quad and featured one of my colleagues in the Linguistics department.

They were only 25 and 26 here😮 they looked older. People now look younger in their 20s

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Pint of bitter was it, yeah that’s right,EE AW then 😂

Thank you so much... I've been after this for years and had given up. The first hints of The Young Ones...

Real shame the audio's terrible, this is a proper rare find

Excellent, thank you. Something reminded me of this years ago and I looked everywhere for a copy, DVD, (even VHS) but nothing turned up. I thought I'd never get the chance to watch it again.

I miss Neil. I've often daydreamed about performing this song on a karaoke night!

Read the book when l was a teenager, then watched this years later. Incredibly hard to find now, thanks for uploading

Rik doing Cliff.