EPISODE · Sep 13, 2023 · 50 MIN
Ben Clover: Comedy, Culture, and the TV Shows That Shaped Us
from All My Clothes Need Burning (formerly Television Times)
Ben Clover underwent a post-pandemic transformation so complete that friends walked past him in the street — and has since been applying that same sharp eye to Utopia, Deadwood, Life on Mars, and the unsettling legacy of Top of the Pops presenters.Ben Clover is an award-winning stand-up comedian, writer, and performer based in London, with multiple Edinburgh Fringe appearances and writing credits across TV, radio, and print media.How Life on Mars might have landed differently in a post-Operation Yewtree worldThe unsettling legacy of Top of the Pops presenters — and the discomfort of revisiting something you lovedThe strange hypnotic pull of the BBC test card — and what it represents about a particular kind of television memoryConnect with Ben here:InstagramFind us on social media — links on the About page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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