The South Bank Show: John Cleese(1986)

John Cleese is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1986 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Cleese speaks of his comedy background, writing for That Was the Week That Was, At Last the 1948 Show and The Frost Report, all which led to Monty Python's Flying Circus, and of Fawlty Towers, which was co-written with his then wife, Connie Booth.