Star-studded Exclusive Documentary on the private and publiclife of Sir Ken Dodd featuring thoughts from his private notebooks - "Happinessis a frame of mind"

THE REAL KEN DODD - The Man I Loved is an exclusive featuredocumentary film which reveals for the first time the private man behindBritain's greatest comic genius.

Not yet broadcast and produced over four years with fullaccess from Ken's widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth look into Doddy'sprivate world, exploring the many secrets of his comic talent, revealingnever-before-seen home-videos, stage performances and extracts from some of thethousands of Ken's diary notebooks which he'd asked his wife to burn after hisdeath.Wrestling with her conscience forquite some time, Lady Dodd, finally agrees with entertainment historians,museum curators and many of Ken's admirers like Stephen K Amos, Harry Hill,Shaparak Khorsandi, Lee Mack, Paul O'Grady, Johnny Vegas, and Sir Ian McKellento preserve Doddy's notebooks for posterity.These stars explore their passion and memories of Ken in this candid,insightful film which takes you backstage behind the red curtain to reveal afar more intriguing man than the public or even his wife ever realised.

Narrated by Miriam Margolyes, a long-standing fan and friendwho got her first big break working with Doddy, the fly-on-the-wall camerasfollow Anne as she wrestles to preserve Ken's enormous comic and musicallegacy. Witness Lady Dodd as she embarks on a four-year odyssey to establishDoddy's lifelong dream to build a British Comedy Museum and begins tounderstand that if his dream is ever going to happen that is now her job. Alongthe way Dodd's legacy helps create a new Shakespeare Northern Globe theatre andensures that Ken has become the first comic to have a national museumexhibition celebrating his 70 years bringing "Happiness" to audiences acrossBritain.

Full of his greatest comic performances, the film lifts theveil on the secrets of the Squire of Knotty Ash and is a must-see for all Doddyfans.

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