PANTO SPECIAL 2021
Peter Duncan – Hot to Trott
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Peter Duncan, now in his mid-60s, will probably be forever known, by those of a certain age, as one of the 1980s Blue Peter presenters – in particular the John Noakes-style daredevil who cleaned the face of Big Ben without a safety harness (try doing that today!). Anybody who can’t remember the iconic show of the 80s might be scratching their heads trying to place the actor and presenter – that is unless you’re a big panto fan.
And I do mean ‘big’. In fact a cast of forty, plus a twelve-foot giant, plus an eco-friendly story, plus original songs and a real garden setting… all written by a clock cleaner (careful how you say that!).
Duncan has appeared in and written many pantomimes over the last thirty years. It’s a genre he’s very familiar with. “I grew up with panto,” he tells me over the phone (as is the way these days). “My father was a pantomime and summer season producer called Alan Gale and so I was steeped in the history of it from day one.” Not only that; he’s in no doubt as to the importance of pantomime across the country: “Especially after the year we’ve just had I realise how integral pantomime is to our culture and how people of all ages miss it when they can’t go.”
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