Friday Video: Peter Cook reels in radio phone-in host

Friday, March 19 2010

Apropos of absolutely nothing, this week's Friday Video is Peter Cook as Sven from Swiss Cottage. If you don't know the story, basically Cook, presumably bored one evening in 1988, decided he would call into LBC Radio's phone-in under the guise of a Norwegian fisherman called Sven. He's lost his wife and he's sick of the fish-based phone-ins you get in Norway, and over a number of calls he builds an elaborate picture of a former fisherman traversing the world searching for his ex-wife. Funny and tragic, undermined a little by host Clive Bull sounding patronising.

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