Richard: Okay, hands up. Who doesn't like Anthony Head? See? Everybody's a fan. Everybody loves him. Teenage girls because of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Everyone else because of...well, lots of things. But lately his Sebastian plagued Prime Minister in Little Britain and now Anthony's in a brand new film. It's a rom-com called Imagine Me & You which is tipped to be this summer's big hit. Here he is as the father of the bride-to-be determined...determined to avoid anything approaching a heart to heart with his future son-in-law.

clip from Imagine Me & You

Richard: Anthony's here now. You speak for fatherhood. You speak for fatherhood.

Anthony: I think I do.

Richard: We don't want those conversations do we?

Anthony: No we certainly don't. No no no.

Judy: How old are your girls?

Anthony: Seventeen and fifteen.

Judy: Oh gosh they're growing up.

Anthony: I'm not having any conversations like that -

Richard: Well I'm very fond of our daughter's boyfriend but ooofff.

Judy: Shall we just let go of that one.

Richard: No it's just It's okay, she's in Australia.

Judy: Now that film is it was going to be released in, this month but it's now going to be released this summer.

Anthony: It's coming - they're going for a World Cup release.

Judy: A World Cup release?

Anthony: Yes, June 16th I think basically - and it's...you know that seems to suggest it's a chick flick but it's not.

Judy: Oh I see the boys go off to the World Cup -

Richard: The boys go off to the football...

Anthony: Yeah but this apparently follows the second qualifying game England have, so depending on whether the boys are happy or not it's you know, they'll all be down at the movies. But it actually is it's a really lovely script that's the first time I've seen it and it works so well on screen.

Judy: It's about, I mean that boy you're talking to is marrying your daughter.

Anthony: Matthew Goode is marrying Piper Perabo who's my daughter As you can tell, I aged up.

Richard: But she, without giving too much away, she realizes early on that maybe her boyfriend, the man she is going to marry isn't necessarily even the right sex for her.

Anthony: Well she sees...on the wedding day, she suddenly...there's this moment, this flash when she sees the girl who's arranged the flowers, played by Lena Headey.

Richard: In the church.

Anthony: In the church and from that moment on she's just, I mean there are doubts, not that she starts in any doubt at all, but just sort of the way that things happen, it seems to be suggesting that they should get together and she's just thrown into confusion and she doesn't know what she's feeling which is this point when Matt's character just comes to her father and to say "What do I do? I don't understand, what do I do?" It's so beautifully written and it's - and every time that every moment that you think it might be getting a bit schmaltzy or a bit obvious, it suddenly takes a turn down a road that you're not expecting. That's why I say it's not a chick flick because it's kind of...it's not just about romance. It's actually about true love and two people being together.

Judy: It's good to see a British comedy again, isn't it? I mean Shaun of the Dead was really successful and all the rest of it.

Richard: So it's called Imagine Me & You and it's out on the 16th of June. Meantime you're flying back to the States. We had Elton John in (....) and he was talking about the sitcom that he's written and you're starring in it.

Anthony: Yeah, it's not a sitcom, it's a single camera. It's being written by one of the writers, one of the main writers -

Richard: Hang on. You say it's not a sitcom, it's a single camera?

Anthony: Sitcom is three cameras usually and it's on a set and it's got an audience like Little Britain. But like Sex and the City - and it was written by one of the writers of Sex and the City and it was produced by one of the producers of Desperate Housewives.

Richard: What's your part?

Anthony: Um, I'm playing a gay iconic rock and roll star.

Richard: Sebastian would love that.

Anthony: Yes he would.

Judy: Is that why you're growing your hair?

Anthony: Yes. Maybe I should just go with the hair extensions and leave it at that. Actually, I grew my hair for a stage play that I did called Otherwise Engaged in the West End and the producers when they saw it said (in an American accent) "Keep your hair just like that. Don't cut it, we'll cut it." I began to look like one of those, you know, like I've been in hospital too long.

Richard: We're going to reconnect you to your past. 1983. Two Way was the name of the band.

Anthony: Yes it was.

Richard: You were good actually.

Judy: You've got a really good voice we were listening to it this morning.

Richard: You were an eighties rocker. For some reason it didn't quite happen.

Anthony: It didn't happen because it wasn't meant to.

Richard: Alright. But it happened in Germany for you.

Anthony: Apparently it went down quite well and our manager went into the A&R man's office and the A&R man and the head executive of the record company had an argument and both walked out of the record company in front of our manager as he was talking album deals. So like I say, it was just not meant to happen.

Richard: Do you want to hear it?

Anthony: If you want to hear, go on. (with a "if I must" expression on his face)

Judy: A little bit.

Richard: No it's good. We wouldn't play it if it wasn't good.

Anthony: Go ahead.

Richard: Well, to be honest, we're ruthless. We would play it. But it's good. Here we go.

clip of All Dressed Up plays while photos of the record covers are shown (the scans on this page were the ones used)

Judy: It was very good.

Richard: ((??)) It was the eighties. It was '83.

Anthony: Yes, we had the little plait things going on and...oh. No it was alright. It was okay. And it did it's thing and my partner Sarah, at the time said, you know it came down to the crunch "Do you want to do that or do you want to act?" Ultimately you've got to make the decision.

Richard: I had the same crossroad. I was in a band called Alchemy, we had a contract on the table.

Judy: And here you are acting.

Richard: Do you want to be a journalist or do you want to be in a band? I had a mate who was also in it and he was going to be a doctor.

Anthony: Did you make the right decision?

Richard: I made the right decision.

Anthony: I think you did too.

Richard: But listen, talk about playing gay iconic rock stars, can we show - well we're going to show it anyway. We want to show you snogging Sebastian. Because there are lots of flirts and flirtations in the three series of Little Britain -

Anthony: Yes (Anthony repeatedly says "Yes" throughout the following.)

Richard: But there was one full on passionate kiss on the night that your party won the election. Okay, here it is in all it's glory.

Little Britain clip

Judy: You were laughing in that.

Anthony: I was. I was definitely laughing. Well I wasn't expecting- when we rehearsed it, it was like you know (mimics a brief peck) so I went in for the same kiss and this limpet was across my entire mouth.

Judy: What do you do? Did you just keep your mouth firmly closed.

Anthony: Well yes.

Richard: Judy!

Anthony: There are no tongues involved, okay.

Richard: He doesn't say "Welcome in."

Anthony: I was - firmly buttoned.

Richard: But that's a brilliant part for you, so funny. You must - there must be lots of outtakes where you guys just break up.

Anthony: There are a few, well in fact yeah they're running them on BBC3. But they're such lovely guys they are so easy to get on with and they're so completely untouched by it. I think it's amazing. They've had this meteoric success and they still just like, they concentrate on the work and the writing.

Judy: Now, I know that they want you very much to play the Prime Minister again when they bring their stage show to London this autumn and you say you may be caught up with other stuff in America.

Anthony: Well it depends. I mean ultimately yes, this show in America if it gets picked up, I don't know. We've certainly talked about it and I would love to do it.

Judy: Well if you do you know whose going to be playing the Prime Minister (points to Richard)

Anthony: Really?

Judy: David's asked him.

Richard: Only if he can't do it.

Judy: If he can't do it. That's what I mean.

Anthony: Top. Excellent.

Richard: So you'll have to give me kissing lessons.