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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. In the last of the series, Lenny criss-crosses Britain to discover how humour can draw boundaries between some communities - and how it can also break those boundaries down.
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. In the last of the series, Lenny criss-crosses Britain to discover how humour can draw boundaries between some communities - and how it can also break those boundaries down.
| Series: | Lenny's Britain |
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| First transmission date: | 03-07-2007 |
| Published: | 2007 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:03 |
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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; Humour; Ireland--Race relations; Miners--Great Britain |
| Production number: | NBRI566R |
| Videofinder number: | 7463 |
| Available to public: | no |
