Hello, I'm Christy Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs Archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1987, and the presenter was Michael Parkinson.

There are many people who will be delighted to hear the news that are two guests today,

what we've marooned on a Desert Island, indeed, somewhat gladly volunteer to arrange the matter.

Then again, there have been many people greatly saddened by the news because it had mean

the end of their favourite television program.

Spitting images, the program, vulgar and crude to some, to others the funniest program on the box by a mile.

The originators of spitting images are Peter Fluck and Roger Law.

First of all, let's establish what you look like, because you're well known, but you're not instantly recognizable to the general public.

Let me ask you to do to yourselves what you do to others, which is to invent some caricature of yourselves.

Roger, can I ask you if you're going to do as a spitting image, Peter there.

What Peter would be very easy, I'm afraid to say, he looks rather like an emaciate prune,

a sort of blonde version of Barry Norman, and you add the ears and the long nose, and now you have it.

Peter?

Well, I think that after that, I mean, I think Roger could only be portrayed as a rather bloated version of Bluto from Popeye,

but with large red staring eyes rather like traffic lights.

Let's now talk about this desert island.

I mean, you've worked together for a long, long time now.

Would you in fact get along?

No, I think what we've got to do, we've got to split the island by the high tide.

So when the high tide comes in, we get some part of the day where we're separate.

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