Nigel Planer

Diary – 16 February 2017

Also in Nigel Planer’s Diary: I’m still big in Catalonia; why ‘The Old Ones’ is a crap idea; my apology to Neils everywhere

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I’m boning up on conversational Spanish for a trip to the Primera Persona festival in Barcelona with Alexei Sayle. We’re due to talk about The Young Ones — the comedy series we made together 35 years ago. For some reason the show is huge in Catalonia — perhaps it’s scatological: one of their regional symbols is a pooping peasant.

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