1/6 Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook (1995)

Documentary first broadcast in late 1995, almost a year after Cook's death.
With Eleanor Bron, Alan Bennett, Barry Humphries, Ian Hislop, Jonathan Miller, Trevor Nunn, Christopher Booker, David Frost and Peter Cook's sister Sarah.
Peter's early life, with archive photographs and footage, including some home movies from the 1930s and 1940s.
Peter's days at Radley College: moving stones and an extract from The Black and White Blues.
On to Cambridge and the Footlights.

[@TheAkelei]

The music at 0.15 - 0.25 - if someone should be asking - is "l'aprés-midi d'une faune" by Debussy. Beautiful piece. It's worth listen to.

[@typewriter10000]

Thanks for sharing all these videos, it's much appreciated.

[@ExodusPessoa]

R.I.P Dudley Moore

[@ExodusPessoa]

R.I.P Peter Cook

[@farleigh17]

Thanks very much. What an amazing man he was.

[@shanewright2772]

The funniest man who ever drew breath.

[@peterjansen3846]

Couldn't agree more.

[@djbobhoskins]

This was originally broadcast as part of the 'Omnibus' series on BBC1, on 19th December 1995 at 10.20pm.

[@Professor6871]

Thanks for this. This was broadcast not long after he died as a tribute to him. Can it be twenty years since his been dead? Seems more like yesterday to me.

[@alexlee7773]

His faults make him even more endearing.

[@joserafaelzepeda-garza9971]

THE GREAT PETER COOK

[@colinnuttall9579]

If Peter Cooks father was abroad at the time of his birth, wouldn’t that make him his mother ? Perhaps being the child of two lesbians explains a lot about Peter. Peter Cook was extraordinary in many ways and I should have liked to throw my arms around him, but given his traumatic birth did not wish to burden him further with accusations of a homosapien relationship with a man of his own gender.

[@MIKE-TYTHON]

Why’s one of the videos hidden on the Clive and derek documentary did someone report it ?

[@ExodusPessoa]

R.I.P David Frost

[@dave1970uk]

wanna expand on that?

[@BAAVIANIST]

AM I HIS DISTANT RELATION...? AS FOR "CROSSING HIM"... WHAT?????

[@ingerlander]

When I watch such stuff as this, scenes of life in England as they were with schools singing Jerusalem it's enough to make you weep. There seems to be nothing left of my childhood that hasn't come under the synical and creepy watchfull eye of the modern socialist regimes. We used to gather in the local and tell jokes, everyone told jokes and ALL was up for ridicule and satire, try that now with your modern pinko. Tell a joke now and it is through the anonimity of e-mail less sensitivities twitch

[@MsFlowerblue]

and a socialist to boot