Matt Lucas returns to the screen on Sunday, playing an impecunious aristocrat who lives in a caravan in the new BBC Two series, Pompidou.

For his latest comedy venture he is teaming up again with writer Ashley Blaker, possibly the only British Jew in the comedy business who wears peyot.

Mr Blaker was the producer on the original radio version of Little Britain and also worked on the TV series The Matt Lucas Awards.

As he noted in a promotional video for Shabbat UK last autumn: "I lay claim to probably being the only person in the country who works in TV who doesn't themselves own a TV."