About this episode

An interview with Charlie Higson discussing his music career with The Higsons and his transition to TV comedy and writing.

This episode features an Interview with Charlie Higson who for 6 years appeared in the band The Higsons. he hasnt spoken about that much and we explore his part in the band and what happened afterwards. For those that are new to the Higsons they were formed in 1980 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, The Higsons first recording was on the “Norwich – A Fine City” compilation album and they did 5 Sessions for John Peel. They released records on the 2 tone label and were part of that Norwich scene which included a number of bands which Charlie talks about but we interviewed one of them all the way back in Episode 2, Screen 3 so thats worth a listen after this one ! Charlie talks about moving from Music to TV comdey as part of the fast Show on BBC television, working with Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield amongst many others and also talks about then moving on to writing novels. Its an all encompassing episode that covers his whole career and the conversation about the Higsons is one that has rarely been heard. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it and the I nterview with Charlie starts at around 21.30 mins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…

People in this episode

Hosts: Martin Bull, Noel Dinneen

Guest: Charlie Higson

Topics covered

• music
• interview
• comedy
• novels
• band history
• career exploration

Keywords

• Charlie Higson
• The Higsons
• music
• comedy
• novels
• BBC
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Higsons, BBC

Books & works: Norwich – A Fine City

Places: University of East Anglia, Norwich

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