Peter Fluck & Roger Law - Desert Island Discs

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Peter Fluck and Roger Law are the creators of the successful satirical television series Spitting Image. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, they recall how they first met at art school in Cambridge, their days as freelance illustrators, how they made three-dimensional caricatures, which they photographed, and their eventual animation of the models for television.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Cello Suite No 6 In D by Johann Sebastian Bach Book: My Last Breath by Luis Bunuel Luxury: Margaret Thatcher's resignation speech

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Peter Fluck and Roger Law are the creators of the successful satirical television series Spitting Image. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, they recall how they first met at art school in Cambridge, their days as freelance illustrators, how...

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