Peter Kay is to star in a new BBC Two comedy based on the autobiography of DJ and journalist Danny Baker.
Set in 1974, Cradle to Grave will follow the real-life events of Baker and his family in a series of eight 30-minute episodes. Co-written by Jeff Pope and Baker, the show is due for broadcast later this year.
Kay will play Baker's father, south London docker Fred 'Spud' Baker, alongside Lucy Speed as his long-suffering wife Bet Baker.
Laurie Kynaston will star as a young Danny and Alice Sykes and Frankie Wilson as Danny's siblings, the soon-to-be-married 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."
