Adair Shepherd
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116 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Adair Shepherd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's playing this character Pitkin who's impersonating like a kind of posh bad guy, Napolitani.
And then he's also playing Napolitani and they're confronting each other in this clip.
His peak in the UK was like 1950s and 60s.
But like by the kind of end of the 60s, he had a couple of flops.
And then in the 80s and 90s, he was kind of just doing guest spots.
In 1995, he was 80 and his agent got a phone call from a businessman who'd been working in the newly opened Albania, which had opened up in 1991.
And he said he was going to arrange an all expenses paid trip to Albania.
Okay.
Then when he landed in Albania, he stepped off the plane.
A massive cheering crowd was waiting for him.
And his agent compared his reception to Beatlemania.
Okay.
And he was crowded in the streets.
Men and women would come up and kiss him.
He had like a four-day tour where he met the president.
Yeah.
he he was made an honorary citizen okay why i mean he seems fine but you know i feel like a fair few comedians of that era would have played pretty well anywhere yes exactly it's all to do with this unique media environment that we discussed in the episode under horger do you want to like recap what you learned researching it
I read that there were some spots where you could only pick up Yugoslav or Greek television.
So there's some, like, slight dialectical... If you lived in really specific places, then you didn't learn Italian, you learned Greek or something.
Yeah, well, that was the environment that this was in.
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