A Partridge In A Pear Tree
A special Yuletide video presentation from your Omniscient Mussel. There’ll be one a day until Epiphany on 6th January. Bon appetit.
A Life In Pieces is a series of twelve, five minute shows. Originally broadcast on BBC2 at Christmas 1990. The series features Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (played by Peter Cook) being interviewed by Ludovic Kennedy, (a real journalist, although he is in on the joke) based loosely around The Twelve Days of Christmas.
It’s typical absurdist, British humour delivered in a brilliant deadpan. Those after more obvious gags may find this a little tedious. It’s worth sticking around for the whole series and, of course, telling all your friends about it. Tis the season for sharing, after all. It seems that Sir Streeb-Greebling gets more outrageous as the days pass, if that is even possible.
Quite possibly the best use ever of Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto, no?
Love it! I don’t miss too, too much about the UK life, but the comedy is definitely one of the things that is missed. Especially the extra surreal stuff.
What! You don’t miss sullen teenagers smoking pot upstairs on the bus or soul crushing poverty on the estates? What about Wotsits?
This was actually a random find on YouTube but it is just so great I couldn’t resist posting the whole series. Enjoy the rest of the episodes.