Kit Hesketh-Harvey has been a fixture on the cabaret circuit for nigh on 40 years, and is also a screenwriter, librettist, broadcaster, veteran panto villain and social dynamo, among much else besides.

Famous for 30 years as one half of "Kit and the Widow", and subsequently as 50% of "Kit and McConnel", his skewering, blithely acidic and sometimes heartrending cabaret chansons have tackled every subject under the sun from fans of Stephen Sondheim and the perils of eating at Nando's to the (thankfully now abolished) Clause 28 and environmental destruction, and he now has his eye on how best to adapt to a world now acutely aware of the politics of identity.

He talks, from the former church designed by William Donthorn which he owns, which sits next to his house and within which he has passed a hermitesque lockdown, to Dark Unicorn Productions Artistic Director Paddy Cooper about the many turns and twists his career has taken, his adoration for the magic of pantomime and how a great-aunt managed to escape back to England from behind enemy lines in World War One using a ukulele and her feminine wiles.

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CREDITS:

Written, Presented and Edited by Paddy Cooper

Title Music: Curtis Batson

Special thanks to: The estate of James Lipton, James McConnel (The McConnel of that ilk), Richard Sisson, The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Jenks & Co., Gay Times, The Evening Standard, The How To Academy/FANE, Channel 4, The Daily Telegraph and The Reading Chronicle

Executive Producer: Eleanor Stourton

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