Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Tyne Travel
Episode: 7 - The History of North East Comedy part 3
Description: It's Tyne Travel podcast and your hosts, comedians and amateur history buffs Raul Kohli and Mike Milligan are joined by Lee Kyle for the third of four episodes about the history of comedy in the North East.
This time they focus on South Tyneside, Lee's home and, rather puzzlingly, a real comedy hotbed.They try to work out why.
Wee Georgie Wood, Albert Burdon, Wavis O'Shave, Eric Idle, Sarah Millican, Chris Ramsey, Jason Cook, Seymour Mace, Carl Hutchinson, Zoe, Louise Young and lots more are from there but do they have anything in common? Why does a small unassuming...