3. Sally Phillips & Victoria Pile on Smack The Pony
Sally Phillips and Victoria Pile share how the award-winning show came to TV with Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman. From 2021.
Sally Phillips and Victoria Pile variously created, wrote, and starred in Channel 4's award-winning sketch show Smack The Pony.
The duo share the inside story with TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman.
When Smack The Pony debuted in 1999, the critics talked about it being a 鈥渇emale鈥� sketch show. Which was right in as much as it starred and was run by women, and it pushed back against the male gaze which had so dominated the world of British comedy for so long.
But of course, it also rather missed the point 鈥� it wasn鈥檛 a female sketch show. It was a brilliant, edgy, silly, and gloriously funny sketch show.
Victoria and Sally discuss the challenges the show faced on its journey from a small idea pitched (by a man!) at a fancy Park Lane supper, to its BAFTA and Emmy success.
They chat through some of their favourite sketches and reveal how they created their vast array of characters. And they talk about the possibility of more episodes of Smack The Pony ever finding their way on to our TV screens.
Producer: Owen Braben
Made for 麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra by Expectation Productions, and first broadcast in September 2021.
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- Wed 6 Oct 2021 11:30麻豆社 Radio 4
Thu 7 Oct 2021 22:30麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra- Fri 18 Aug 2023 21:00麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 18 Aug 2023 23:30麻豆社 Radio 4
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