Documentary about Britain's greatest satirist Peter Cook, with unprecedented access to his private recordings, diaries, letters, photographs and much more. Following his death, Peter Cook's widow Lin locked the door of his house and refused all access to the media. Until this year, when she invited her friend Victor Lewis-Smith and a BBC crew inside to make a documentary about the man she knew and loved.
Production
Unprecedented access to decades of locked-away private archives.
Acting
Cook's own recordings reveal the man behind the persona.
Director
Geraldine Geraghty
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Victor Lewis-Smith was a controversial comedy producer who'd known Lin for years; their friendship was the key that unlocked the archive.
Cook and Dudley Moore's partnership dominated British comedy in the 1960s, but Moore's Hollywood success created a painful rift that the documentary quietly addresses through Lin's perspective.
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