"The Southbank Show: Marks and Gran" - Full Programme
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LAURENCE MARKS and MAURICE GRAN are the writing team behind Birds of a Feather, The New Statesman, Shine on Harvey Moon, Love Hurts, Goodnight Sweetheart and many other top-rating shows. While working in Hollywood they discovered that "funny is money", and they use techniques they learned in America to ensure the success of their scripts. In this South Bank Show we take them back to Hollywood to meet the producers who influenced them, and we see them developing their latest sitcom - 'Unfinished Business.' MELVYN BRAGG talk to the duo about their unrivalled experience in British comedy writing led them to give an outspoken address to the Edinburgh TV Festival attacking the broadcasting institutions for valuing bureaucrats over creative talent. Recently they have brought their talents to bear on darker areas, and the programme looks behind the scenes at their new drama project based on the life of the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley