The RAREST Alan – Alan interviews Tony Blair, 1997 (where is this footage?! Post it if you have it!)
A very brief clip of Alan interviewing Tony Blair in 1997 (https://x.com/i/status/1301889786668515328)
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Post by: SteveCooganFan on Jan 17, 2025, 04:32 PM
Alan Partridge talks One Direction, Live Aid and a wee-throwing incident at the Alpha Papa premiere, 2013
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Post by: SteveCooganFan on Jan 19, 2025, 09:15 PM
Alan Partridge introduces Alpha Papa in Norwich, 2013
Alan's speech to the crowd in Norwich
Steve Coogan's interview with Absolute Radio about Alpha Papa
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Post by: Miguel Wilkins on Jan 20, 2025, 05:43 PM
What will you cherish when you look back on your life? The things you did or the things you owned? For me, it will always be the latter. Take tonight. You'll enjoy the show, of course you will, but the second the curtain falls, it's gone. The money you've spent is a sunk cost, effectively worth nothing. But the programme? The programme lives on. It belongs to you - potentially forever.
Not just a directory of who the lighting guy was or whether a dancer had been in The Lion King, a good programme is a living breathing artefact.
As a child, my programme collection was my pride and my joy. Over a dozen booklets nestled in a stack under my bed - one from a Tom Jones concert live in Cardiff, another from a production of Hair starring T\/'s Paul Nicholas, another from Aladdin starring both Cliff Richard and Hank Marvin, one for a military tattoo with scowling soldiers shoving a cannon over a fake wall.
They were a catalogue of who I was - and l was determined they would live on. And so, in 1967, l excitedly placed my programmes in a tin box, a time capsule. Decades on, they would be found, perhaps by a metal detectorist or a deranged dog. In it, they'd find a treasure trove of programmes and a letter from me, imploring them to place the programmes in the British Museum or sell them to a children's home.
Forty years later, l returned to that garden and dug the box from its soily bed. it was only when l went to open it that I noticed l hadn't put the lid on properly. As a consequence, moisture had been allowed to enter the tin, the humidity proving the perfect incubator for a quite staggering amount of mould and fungus. Together, they had reduced my programmes to a kind of black mulch, the paper replaced by a sprawling mushroom that absolutely stank.
Which is why l implore you all to buy at least two copies of this programme.
Thank you.
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This is the only Alan content in the tour programme for Stratagem. I paid £20 for this and the t-shirt. Am I bitter? A bit. But at least it's not stinking of mould.
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Post by: Miguel Wilkins on Jan 25, 2025, 11:02 PM
Comic Relief 1999
I don't think this has all been available in a single compilation before.
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Post by: Miguel Wilkins on Feb 10, 2025, 09:33 PM
Pictures from Alan's presentation of Scissored Isle for BAFTA in 2016. This is one of the few important videos that never seem to have been made public. If you know anyone in BAFTA tell them to sort themselves out and get it published. Or else!
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Post by: Miguel Wilkins on Feb 10, 2025, 10:00 PM
Pics from another event that professional video has never emerged from. A 2011 charity gig called Under One Roof in aid of the Kids Company.
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Post by: Miguel Wilkins on Feb 14, 2025, 02:03 PM
Video from the Under One Roof charity event in 2011.
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Post by: SteveCooganFan on Mar 05, 2025, 08:55 AM
Alan Partridge and Pauline Calf on The Big Snog (1996)
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Post by: Miguel Wilkins on Mar 16, 2025, 05:18 PM
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tPh_U8h9mfo/hq720.jpg) Alan's chat directly to the audience