Was this impromptu event - a farmer's field in Hampshire that hosted comedy talents including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Billy Connolly and Rik Mayall - where the first seed of Comic Relief was planted? The year is 1984 and, thanks to a headline in the Sunday Times, the tenacity of a charity entrepreneur and an eagle-eyed vicar, it is the opening evening of the first Nether Wallop international arts festival. The headline ran in 1982 and sat above an article asking why Edinburgh h...
Comic Relief's outlandish origin story - inside Nether Wallop festival
The Guardian - 17 Mar 2023 10:30
Was this impromptu event - a farmer's field in Hampshire that hosted comedy talents including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Billy Connolly and Rik Mayall - where the first seed of Comic Relief was planted? The year is 1984 and, thanks to a headline in the Sunday Times, the tenacity of a charity entrepreneur and an eagle-eyed vicar, it is the opening evening of the first Nether Wallop international arts festival. The headline ran in 1982 and sat above an article asking why Edinburgh h...
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