Comedy Connections: Birds of a Feather

Series charting the history of some of the best British comedy shows, and finding out what the teams who made them have gone on to do. A look at Essex girls sitcom Birds of a Feather, whose stars Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke first acted together as long ago as 1970 and whose writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran came from journalism and the civil service into the sitcom premier league with this and other hits like The New Statesman.