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2 unusual facts about Philip Pope


Philip Pope

Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single "The Chicken Song" with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

The Hee Bee Gee Bees

The 'band' consisted of the three Cribb (Gibb) brothers; Garry (Barry), Norris (Maurice) and Dobbin (Robin), performed respectively by Angus Deayton, Michael Fenton Stevens, and Philip Pope.


Klaus Harmony

Actors Isy Suttie, Stephen Carlile, Martin Crewes, Kim Ismay, Philip Pope and Tim Whitnall have contributed voice work on the recordings along with Strachan himself and his wife, author, Bernadette Strachan.


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