Alan Coren

Freedom Pass

December 7th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

Margate and Southend

I've been waiting for this one to come round again. Two funny old men: Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew, comic writers of the clever post-war generation that made my parents laugh in places like Punch and Private Eye and then on the radio and TV—and then later made me laugh in turn.

Lovely programme: gentle, clever and quite moving, not least because Coren died since we last heard it (Radio 4 repeated the series as part of a tribute). In this episode he and Matthew use their Freedom Passes to go off on a day trip to Southend, which is only about twenty miles by sea from Margate, which came up in the last post. I think that's what you call a link (MP3).

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