RHLSTP Book Club 130 - Lissa Evans

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Book Club #130 - Picnic on Craggy Island - Richard talks to ex radio and TV producer and now successful novelist Lissa Evans about her fab book of reminiscences about working on Father Ted. They discuss what it is that a producer actually does (which is an awful lot as it turns out), how Lissa went from fan girl to producing the second and third series of this iconic series, the perfection of the casting and sometimes unrecognisability of the actors, the tragedy of Dermot Morgan’s death the day after the final day of filming, why you should never tell writers not to do something, the relative lack of photos and why it’s nice to look back at this series from the distance of three decades.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Rich Terring podcast feed. Thank you for your support. You can support me
0:05.9	even more by coming to see me live. Unbelievably, and I didn't realize this. The can I have my
0:12.0	ballback tour starts on Tuesday the 25th of February, where I'll be in Tring. This week, I'm also
0:19.2	coming to Canterbury on the Wednesday, bath on Thursday and
0:23.2	Exeter on Friday, and then the week after I'm going to be in Dublin and Belfast. Loads more to come.
0:28.7	Head to Richard Herring.com slash ballback slash tour. And you can see if I'm coming near to you.
0:34.2	Please come along if you can. Also, Rahalasthapa. There's still a few dates.
0:38.0	Richard Herring.com slash Rahalusdapur. You can see who's coming up. We've got John Cairns on the 3rd of February.
0:44.2	We've got Paul Whitehouse on the 24th of March and then to be announced in the April gig as well.
0:50.2	Please support that. We may have to rethink our strategy
0:54.6	if we aren't selling tickets,
0:58.0	but the poor White House one is nearly sold out,
1:00.1	so do rush along if you want to get to that one.
1:02.6	But come and see all of them.
1:04.2	They're so much fun.
1:05.7	Anyway, thanks for listening.
1:07.6	Come and see me on tour.
1:08.9	Sit back, relax and enjoy another stupid podcast.
1:15.6	Hello and welcome to another Rahalist about Book Club. This week I'm delighted to be looking at picnic on Craggie Island.
1:22.7	The surreal joys of producing Father Ted by Lissa Evans, who joins us now.
1:28.0	Hello, Lissa.
1:29.0	Hello, Richard.
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