Monday 22 December, 9:00pm, BBC4
Documentary which traces the modern history of the comedy pop song from the birth of the charts in 1952 to its reinvention in the new millennium. We discover that George Martin was the missing link between the Goons and the Beatles, that the Barron Knights invented the parody song and that the Two Ronnies were not big fans of Not the Nine O'Clock News. Includes material from the 1960s satire boom, the 1970s golden period of Monty Python and the wilderness years of 1980s novelty naffness.
Documentary which traces the modern history of the comedy pop song from the birth of the charts in 1952 to its reinvention in the new millennium. We discover that George Martin was the missing link between the Goons and the Beatles, that the Barron Knights invented the parody song and that the Two Ronnies were not big fans of Not the Nine O'Clock News. Includes material from the 1960s satire boom, the 1970s golden period of Monty Python and the wilderness years of 1980s novelty naffness.
