成人快手

Graham Fellows is an actor, musician and character comedian who has been in showbusiness for 40 years.

After hiding behind the masks of made-up people, it鈥檚 time he revealed himself.

This is an honest account of Graham鈥檚 life to date - sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving and often disarmingly honest - which will give a real sense of the man behind the mask.

Each show is punctuated with witty and moving songs performed on pedal harmonium and Graham shares which songs he kept for himself and which he gave to his characters, and why, with occasional interjections from some of Graham鈥檚 characters, particularly John Shuttleworth.

In the last of two episodes, we find Graham a bit depressed and ready to quit showbusiness.

After some counselling, he decides that what he really wants to do with his life is become a milkman! But after three months with not a single glimpse of a housewife in a nightie, he鈥檚 offered an acting job in the Theatre. This renews his love of performing and he returns to John Shuttleworth, honing the character so that he鈥檚 shortlisted for the Perrier awards and has his first series on Radio 4.

Graham soon feels ready to create a new character, and rock musicologist Brian Appleton is born: 鈥淚've been dumped upon from a massive height by so many rock stars, even Morrissey ripped me off. I wrote a song called My Turn to be Poorly.鈥�

John is ever present, and Graham reveals that such were the demands of Shuttleworth and the sheer quantity of songs the character needed for new tours and radio shows that he had to pass many of his own songs straight over to John, including She Lives in Hope and The Man who Lives on the M62. At which point, Ken Worthington appears and insists that John wrote all his own songs, unaided.

Graham reveals who voices the other characters in the Shuttleworth world before ending the show with a song that captures the truth of a simple event in HIS life 鈥� I Had an Egg with my Son.

Producer: Dawn Ellis

A Chic Ken production for 成人快手 Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

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