Cradle to Grave will air later this year.
Phoenix Nights star Peter Kay is set to return to BBC screens later this year with a role in Cradle to Grave, a sitcom based on the early life of broadcaster Danny Baker.
The comedy will be set in 1974 and is being written by both Baker and Jeff Pope.
Kay will play paterfamilias Fred ‘Spud’ Baker, a London docker, with Lucy Speed as his wife Bet.
Laurie Kynaston plays a young Danny, with Alice Sykes and Frankie Wilson as Danny’s siblings, Sharon and her brother Michael.
“I am thrilled and honoured to be involved in a project of this scale,” said Kay.
“I’ve never known anything like it before – eight period half-hour episodes, shot as feature films and written to an extremely high standard by Danny Baker and Jeff Pope.”
“Well (it) is weird and there’s no way around that,” added Baker. “To see your life played out by actors is always going to be peculiar and also, frankly quite tremendous.”
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