INTERVIEW - Game for a laugh

Head of BBC comedy Geoffrey Perkins is under pressure to deliver the laughs - and not just by re-running old successes. He has a string of new shows and funds to cross-fertilise BBC 1 and 2 ideas, but will he pull it off?

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