March 6, 2017 marks the centenary of the birth of a comedy legend: Frankie Howerd, who was and still is “one of Britain’s best-loved comedians”. A radical, whose courage and innovation as a performer ...

Michael Parkinson introduces a recut of two interviews he did with Frankie Howerd during the Parkinson show series and a Christmas interview with Tommy Cooper. Frankie Howerd wanted everything ...

Frankie Howerd was a man – and a talent – of unique contradictions. He was a shambling, rambling, everyman in a bad suit and worse toupee. He plotted every detail of his act and redefined modern stand ...

Whoops Baghdad is a BBC television comedy programme first broadcast from 25 January to 1 March 1973. The series stars Frankie Howerd, and was similar to his earlier programme Up Pompeii!, with the ...