Hello and welcome to the Rock on Tours podcast I am Gary Kemp.

And I am Guy Pratt.

This week on the show we're taking a bit of a break from the music

although not really to chat to a king of comedy, a man whose TV shows and characters

are familiar to millions, watched by record-breaking audiences and consistently voted the greatest

TV shows of all time.

You'd be hard pushed to find a more creative writing partnership in TV, film, and theatre.

Please welcome the Lennon or McCartney, I'm going with Lennon, of TV. It's Ian Lefrenae.

Hey, so Ian Lefrenae has written the lightly lads, wrote Alvedisane pet, wrote porridge, which was a staple diet of mine on TV.

Back in the 70s and 80s. was it the 80s or the 70s

Ian it was the 70s gosh great decade for me and of course alvedo

a pet was the 80s love joy in the 90s and all other things since then.

Unbelievable. I mean really you didn't just write shows, you created culture.

The trouble with talking about all these things it's like people who make great

head albums and that they're their signature landmark thing but people

forget they've actually done something since but I'm very happy to talk about

whatever you want. I know but no one says alvedizane pet properly do they say

alvedizane pet? Avedizan pet I still can't spell it every And every time I write something about,

Dick Ors says you spelled it wrong again.

I still always remember it was one of the most evocative billboards ever,

which is extraordinary.

It's actually very Brexit.

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