The Many Faces of Les Dawson
Christmas Eve, 9pm, BBC2
A look at the formation of the man and the act in northern working men's clubs and the writing, which all too often gets forgotten.
Why? Because he once wrote: "Last night I looked upwards towards the heavens and marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly on to black velvet. In awe I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot where the tethered bulks of Jupiter and Mars hang forever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at this wondrous sight, I thought … I'd better put a roof on this lavatory."

What a great escape

oh I must see this.

we thought the Les Dawsons of the world would last forever. They are priceless.

I watched an old movie with Charlie Drake the other day..superb.

And a made a group of young Oz friends watch a DVD of Tommy Cooper.,.they adored it.

took them awhile but they were raving about him in the end