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Phil Bowker

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Biography

Phil is a multi award winning BAFTA nominated creator, writer, producer and director. He started performing stand up as a teenager in his native Liverpool before training as a comedy producer in the fabled BBC Radio Light Ent Dept in the early 90’s. He moved into TV working with the likes of Sean Lock on ’15 Storeys High’ and Al Murray in ‘Time Gentlemen Please’ before giving Ricky Gervais his first break in the now forgotten ‘Jim Tavare Show.’ He went on to work with Sharon Horgan and Dennis Kelly, producing the critically acclaimed ‘Pulling’ before going on to create PhoneShop for Channel 4, which he also wrote, produced and directed.

Known For

The Mark Steel Lectures
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The Mark Steel Lectures are a series of radio and television programmes. Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents arguments for the importance of a historical figure. The lectures were originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 over three series between 1999 and 2002. Many of the arguments were illustrated by miniature sketches. These sketches featured Mark Steel, Martin Hyder, Mel Hudson, Carla Mendonça, Femi Elufowoju Junior and Debbie Isitt. The first series was subtitled "A series of lectures about Englishmen who changed the course of history", with the remaining two changing this to "A series of lectures about people with a passion". The first series was produced by Phil Clark; the others by Lucy Armitage. The lecture on Ludwig van Beethoven was nominated for a Sony Radio Comedy Award. The programme transferred to television in 2003, with an Open University series on BBC Four, which was later repeated on BBC Two. This variously featured: ⁕Gerard Logan as Lord Byron ⁕Martin Hyder as Isaac Newton, Sigmund Freud, Aristotle, Che Guevara, Oliver Cromwell, Ludwig van Beethoven and Charles Darwin ⁕Ainsley Harriott as Robert Boyle ⁕Linda Smith as Martha Freud

The Mark Steel Lectures

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