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Sep 18, 2026
James GillHOST
So imagine this is the voiceover.
James GillHOST
The Cambridge Footlights, a very British comedy institution.
James GillHOST
And they'll go, yeah, just maybe focus on the word Cambridge.
James GillHOST
Sure.
James GillHOST
The Cambridge Footlights, a very British comedy institution.
James GillHOST
Yeah, tell you what, just emphasise Cambridge and Footlights.
James GillHOST
Yep, sure.
James GillHOST
The Cambridge Footlights.
Lisa HensonGUEST
Well, it's a really extraordinary student organization.
Lisa HensonGUEST
I mean, it's comparable to Footlights in terms of the amount of famous performers and writers and humorists that have emerged from that organization.
Lisa HensonGUEST
It, it has a little castle.
Lisa HensonGUEST
They, so we have a little castle in the heart of, of heart of Cambridge.
Leo ReichGUEST
comedy? No, well, I did comedy.
Zach Noe TowersHOST
What's the Cambridge comedy? It's called the Cambridge Footlights, and we call it a society.
Zach Noe TowersHOST
Footlight? Yeah.
Zach Noe TowersHOST
Okay.
Nick SolomonHOST
Well, that's Peter Cook and Dudley Moore doing a single called L.S. Bumblebee from 1967, came out on Decca Records, and it is kind of posh psychedelia, isn't it? It's kind of university psychedelia.
Nick SolomonHOST
They met at Cambridge University, joined the Comedy Footlights Review, became famous comedians with TV programmes and everything, but they were a bit trippy, and they did that single in 67, which, I don't know, Fortunately, it didn't get banned, and it's a marvellous little bit of psychedelia.
Nick SolomonHOST
Before that, we had the Crystallised Movements doing Hall Archer from an EP called Fog 3, and that came out in 1990, and I think that's really, really good.
Nick SolomonHOST
And it's getting to that time where I have to go, so I'm going to leave you with a track by a band called The Artistics.
Katie JohnstoneNARRATOR
A Bird's Eye View of the Screen and Stage.
Katie JohnstoneNARRATOR
The Footlights.
Katie JohnstoneNARRATOR
The actors' strike shows no signs of a settlement as Shadowland goes to press.
Katie JohnstoneNARRATOR
The war between the Actors' Equity Association and the Producing Managers Association has resulted in the closing of some 30 New York theaters and all houses in Chicago, besides affecting other cities.
Fern BradyHOST
Yeah.
Fern BradyHOST
Um, we're gonna find someone, uh, here, there's someone from Cambridge Footlights here if you'd like to- Oh, they're my- ... have them write ... they're my better, aren't they? This is great, yeah.
Fern BradyHOST
'Cause we like your voice.
Fern BradyHOST
My voice.
Jon RichardsonHOST
And if you don't get it right, you have to do it.
Russell HowardHOST
The Cambridge Footlights.
Russell HowardHOST
Yeah.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Oh, sorry.
Andy LopataHOST
The book is called In The Moment, and we will dig into that in just a moment.
Andy LopataHOST
But he is a former president of the famous Cambridge Footlights sketch troupe, uh, and a founding member of the brilliant and Europe's leading improvisational troupe, The Comedy Store Players.
Andy LopataHOST
You might have seen him on film in the Austin Powers movies, and he's been on television and radio.
Andy LopataHOST
So a familiar face certainly to me.
Stephen LaytonGUEST
So you could do things as students.
Stephen LaytonGUEST
I mean, this is the same with things like Footlights, the, the, the theater of course, but there's so much opportunity with so many different colleges, so many different people from so many different backgrounds, just to taste the world, taste things.
Simon MooreHOST
Mm.
Stephen LaytonGUEST
So I put on concerts.
NeilHOST
Yeah
CarlHOST
... a couple of lovely people here this evening from Footloose, Footlights at the Griffin.
Lottie ButcherGUEST
All the foots.
CarlHOST
All the foots.
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Lottie ButcherGUEST
Um, but yeah, I think punctuated with some amazing singing and fabulous dancing.
NeilHOST
Cool.
NeilHOST
So Footlights have done things a bit differently this year, haven't they?
Lottie ButcherGUEST
Yeah.
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