ANDY HAMILTON and Nick Revell were your hosts for a double-hander sketch show driven by proto-Lee & Herring gambit of Kelly Monteith-esque deconstruction of double-hander sketch show by hopping in and out of sketch and ‘dialogue’ bits. One of the first shows to attempt ‘making football funny’ gambit, though oddly won most of its friends via a bizarrely catching-on sketch about pirates forming a union.
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Trad Jazz Britannia
Friday, 21.00, BBC4It always amuses us when we see clips of Double Your Money and notice the category board includes both “jazz (traditional)” and “jazz (modern)”, though it is true that at that point trad really was big news, the nascent Pick of the Pops spinning off from Trad Tavern being just one example of its hold on the nation’s teens in the early sixties, despite it being influenced by music some forty years old at the time.
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