The Secret World - Series 2 - Episode 2

With naturalistic performances from Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod and others, take a fly-on-the-wall position and listen in as the great and the good become embroiled in the bizarre and ridiculous. Repeat of Series 2, Episode 2. Sir David Attemborough is asked by the BBC diversity unit to put more disabled animals in his show - in positive circumstances. Ian Paisley meets Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour and insists that the band perform at his cousin Hugo's sixtieth birthday party. Alan Bennett replies to every bit of junk mail personally and with great style. Professor Richard Dawkins persues his career as a pop singer - auditioning for Lady Gaga. The programme is written months in advance of transmission, and is therefore not topical or political - it's a sometimes surreal twist on the familiar 'impression show' without parody, pastiche or the usual caricaturising. The Secret World features some of the best vocal performers around including Lewis MacLeod, Jon Culshaw, Duncan Wisbey, Julian Dutton, Jess Robinson and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. The show is written by Bill Dare and Julian Dutton with Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris and Rufus Jones & Dan Skinner. The producer/creator is Bill Dare.