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Podcast: Tyne Travel
Episode: The History of North East Comedy part 1
Description: Raul Kohli and Mike Milligan are BACK with Tyne Travel podcast and this is the first part of a fascinating four part series about the history of comedy in the North East with fellow comedian and even more amateur historian Lee Kyle.
In this, they take an overview of some stories from the music hall and before, about the local connection to the Lincoln assassination, the man who was sacked and replaced by a monkey and the Newcastle comedian who was sentenced to death.
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