BBC R4 - Michael Coveney's 'The Great Caper'
Abridged by Pete Nichols
Read by Toby Jones
Produced by Karen Rose
Broadcast April 4-8, 2011
Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1

Another life of Ken Campbell.

As well as being the eccentrics' eccentric, and parrot lover
extraordinaire, Ken Campbell secured the careers of, amongst
others, Jim Broadbent, Bob Hoskins, and Bill Nighy.

Publisher's blurb
The first, authorised biography of the anarchic comic genius, much
cherished for his performances on stage and screen.

Ken Campbell (1941–2008) was a one-man whirlwind who tore through the
British theatre establishment using well-rehearsed anarchy and a genius
for surreal comedy.

Starting out in rep at Stoke-on-Trent, he founded the Ken Campbell Road
Show, whose members included the then-unknown Bob Hoskins & Sylvester
McCoy, and which toured pubs and clubs with dramatised urban myths and
shaggy-dog stories. His later shows included Illuminatus! – the first
show at the National Theatre's studio – and the 22-hour The Warp, the
longest play in the world.