A 90-year-old legend with 15,000 props and one broken heart.
Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were tells Sir Ken’s story from his boyhood growing up in the 1930s in Knotty Ash, through his big break into show business and then on to his unrivalled career in entertainment. Poignant and uplifting, the programme features interviews with the people who knew Sir Ken best – friends and family in Liverpool and beyond, and his many colleagues, admirers and fellow-performers from the world of entertainment. The programme also features an interview with Sir Ken’s wife, Lady Anne Dodd.
Acting
Dodd's final interview, frail but ferociously funny
Direction
Denyer lets silences land like punchlines
Production
Archival footage spanning seven decades
Director
Ian Denyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
His 'Diddy Men' and Knotty Ash invented a whole imaginary geography that working-class Liverpool adopted as their own mythology.
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