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When Delbert Wilkins'  TV career comes to an end, he sets up a pirate radio station.

Back to My Roots

Comedy

When the irrepressible Delbert Wilkins'  TV career comes to an unscheduled end, he sets up a pirate radio station to rival his old, now legal, Brixton Broadcasting Corporation, controlled by Winston.

The Lenny Henry Show

Legendary comic Lenny Henry stars as a pirate DJ on his own show

Legendary comic Lenny Henry stars as a pirate DJ on the Brixton Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in this 80s sitcom. Now he's got his own show, he's sure everyone will worship him...

the-lenny-henry-show

Vince is a motorcycle despatch rider and master of the verbal wheelie.

Pratt Outta Hell

Vince, motorcycle despatch rider and master of the verbal wheelie, scorches his way through the metropolis in a leather-gussetted mission of life or death.

Popsi is a traditional Jamaican barber. Just managing in the 80s when he's in his 60s.

Popsi

Popsi is a traditional Jamaican barber. To him, blow waves and mousse are technological mysteries on a level with the silicon chip and the roasting bag.

The greatest detective in history is about to travel into the future to solve a crime.

Gronk Zillman

The greatest detective in history is about to travel into the future to solve a crime that won't happen for years. You might think that's impressive.

There are some men digging a hole in the road. Are they the same men who dug it up before?

Neighbourhood Watch

There are some men digging a hole in the road. Are they the same men who dug it up after the last lot filled it in after it was dug up by the lot before last who didn't fill it in?

It's 1955: Desmond King, just arrived from Jamaica, sees England as a civilised land.

What a Country

It's 1955: Desmond King, just arrived from Jamaica, sees England as a civilised land of unlimited job opportunities where you can make a fortune faster than Rudyard Kipling can make cakes. Is it possible to be this wrong?

Heavenly Romance, the new video teen-magazine, tells the boy-meets-girl story in words.

Heavenly Romance

Heavenly Romance, the new video teen-magazine, tells the boy-meets-girl story in words, pictures and music. That is, sight and sound; taste, touch and smell have been banned. The question is: does it all work out in the end?

Delbert offers some tips on how to deal with banks.

Enterprise Zones

This must be a mistake, right? Geezers getting money out of banks with no questions asked and no nylon tights over their heads! I'd better check this out.' Not that Delbert Wilkins needs dosh, of course... especially when it's Winston asking for it!

The Big Brixton Posse, Delbert and Winston, is back together, out gigging again.

The Single Life

The Big Brixton Posse, Delbert and Winston, is back together, out gigging again. The music's crucial, the floor is hot, the crowd is immense!

Alex's Brixton Broadcasting and Crucial FM are in fierce competition.

In-Laws and Out-Laws

Alex's Brixton Broadcasting Cor-what-a-Bore-ration and Crucial FM are in totally fierce competition. I should be sharpening up my play-list, but my mum wants me to hang with my new stepfather, Trev - that's 'T' for 'Trouble' - 'R' for 'Rigid'!

The Crucial Health

Just because I'm laid up in hospital doesn't mean that Delbert Wilkins is out of action, right? I'm officially 'crucial' not 'critical'.

Delbert, suffering in the cause of his art, refuses to give in.

Public Enemy

Delbert, suffering in the cause of his art, refuses to give in. 'Winston is reading this out for me, because my broken jaw's got more wire round it than Greenham Common!'

The Lenny Henry Show

The Lenny Henry Show

Series 5

1. Back to My Roots

1. Back to My Roots

2. Enterprise Zones

2. Enterprise Zones

3. The Single Life

3. The Single Life

4. In-Laws and Out-Laws

4. In-Laws and Out-Laws

5. The Crucial Health

5. The Crucial Health

6. Public Enemy

6. Public Enemy