Rory Bremner in conversation with Alistair Moffat

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Friends for more than forty years, Moffat first meeting Bremner at the Festival Fringe in 1981, these two have seen enormous change in entertainment, television, comedy and drama. They reflect on the big personalities and their influence. Alistair recalls his invention of the Perrier Award in 1981 and the first winners, Cambridge Footlights with Hugh Lawrie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery, directed by Jan Ravens. Amazingly, Rory’s first national foray was in the pop charts with his hit single, N-N-Nineteen Not Out using impressions of cricket commentators. On Channel Four, Rory Bremner – Who Else was followed by Bremner, Bird and Fortune. Meanwhile Alistair was Director of Programmes at Scottish Television when TV began to change radically. In 2006, the old friends worked together again when Rory first appeared at the Borders Book Festival. And the rest is a version of history.