Stephen Mangan

It's a very good show.

I think Stephen Mangan's on it as well, isn't he? And you're a judge.

Is this the first season, using an American phrase, that you have been a judge on Portrait Artist of the Year?

Yeah, exactly.

If you haven't seen it, check it out.

It's with Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan, and it's just brilliant.

It's about sisters who have a divorce firm.

It's their lives.

[laughs] You're not gonna come on The Weakest Link.

Hey, listen, after watching Stephen Mangan, I'm not going anywhere near that show.

[laughs]

That was...

And I didn't do much in it.

Steve Mangan was in it.

That was his first TV job.

And we used to do some really mad, mad things in that.

I'm Alan Partridge, Midmorning Matters Alpha Papa.

I, Partridge Nomad, open book scissor dial this time, Alan's live stand-up, including Stratagem, comic relief contributions, and we've also spoken to all manner of fans of Partridge who are well-known and also members of the cast, including Simon Greenall, Michael the Geordie, Tim Key, Psychic Simon, Stephen Mangan, Dan, and Susanna Fielding, a.k.a. Jenny Gresham.

So what are we doing here today? We'll be taking a look at your feedback for all the Alan projects that you've been getting in touch about, and then in a couple of weeks' time, we'll be moving on to From the Oast House Series 4.

And it's time for me to introduce myself and the three other Dalland-less shits that are behind Monkey Tennis.

Right

... with Stephen Mangan.

I was going to go and see that because, uh, one, I've seen him in plays before, saw him in Dancing at Lughnasa, and he was brilliant in that.

I wanted to go and see him again and go for dinner and all the rest.

Not to be confused with The Split, but you're forgiven for being confused with The Split because this is the little cousin of the glorious hit series that was The Split.

You remember it starred Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, about a family of London solicitors.

Now, if I tell you that in The Split we had the wonderful Nicola Walker playing a very, very good lawyer, sometimes undervalued in her office.

Imagine that.

concerned sharing the fight scenes really

some other key productions I mean in 1990 you had Joan Collins and Simon Jones in 2002 you had one and this is one that like powered fans the ones who were lucky enough to see it still talk about and that's the alan rickman lindsey duncan production which was on west end and broadway and that was a massive hit i mean 2010 it was revived yet again with um king cattrall and matthew mcfadden in 2013 with toby stevens now chancellor which i was lucky enough to see and i like to say as i'm saying this there are other multiple multiple productions going on all over the place these are just a few highlights And 2021 obviously the Patricia Hodge, Nigel Havers one in the UK, and then the most recent one I think on the West End was Stephen Mangan and Rachel Sterling in 2023.

So this is just to give you like a brief idea and these are like quite major actors and you know, acting in this.

I mean, these aren't just sort of like lesser productions.

They're major revivals going on.

Yeah, and a lot of different interpretations as well.

I think the one you mentioned most recently is Stephen Mangan and Rachel Sterling.

I think that was at the Dunmar, wasn't it?

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Stephen and the twins-

Yeah

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What? No.

Around S- Stephen and the twins.

Yeah.