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What makes us laugh? How do we use humour? Does humour unite or divide us? Is British humour distinctive? Over four programmes, Lenny Henry gets up close and personal with people all over Britain -... exploring humour in the family, at work, at leisure and in our communities. He then builds those experiences into a series of gigs with many of the people he met on his tour sat in the audience joining in the fun. And then there's the Joke Booth, which tours the country with Lenny collecting everyone's favourite funny stories. We begin the series in the bosom of the family. Here, humour is a way of dealing with tensions, especially those arising from the rights of passage - birth, marriage and death.
What makes us laugh? How do we use humour? Does humour unite or divide us? Is British humour distinctive? Over four programmes, Lenny Henry gets up close and personal with people all over Britain -... exploring humour in the family, at work, at leisure and in our communities. He then builds those experiences into a series of gigs with many of the people he met on his tour sat in the audience joining in the fun. And then there's the Joke Booth, which tours the country with Lenny collecting everyone's favourite funny stories. We begin the series in the bosom of the family. Here, humour is a way of dealing with tensions, especially those arising from the rights of passage - birth, marriage and death.
| Series: | Lenny's Britain |
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| First transmission date: | 11-06-2007 |
| Published: | 2007 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:48 |
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| Director: | Kate Broome |
| Producer: | mma De'ath |
| Presenter: | Lenny Henry |
| Contributor: | Lenny Henry |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | OU Website: http://www.open2.net/lennysbritain/index.html |
| Subject terms: | British; Families--Great Britain; Humour |
| Production number: | NBRI563J |
| Videofinder number: | 7462 |
| Available to public: | no |
