Bernard Manning: fat racist bigot or Britain’s funniest comedian? Bernard presents his own epitaph from beyond the grave. Everyone who knows his name has an opinion about Bernard Manning but was he misunderstood?

Was it all an act and was there a softer, more sympathetic and tolerant side to this controversial comic? Made with full approval and participation from both Bernard and his family, the late comic reflects amusingly and philosophically about his rise from the back streets of Manchester to his enormous success, fame, wealth and notoriety.

Thursday 12 July 2007
10:30pm, Channel 4