Writer and broadcaster Danny Baker’s autobiography, Going to Sea in a Sieve, is to be televised for BBC Two. 

ITV Studios is behind the eight episode adaptation called Cradle to Grave; a nine week shoot begins next week. The series will chart the early years of the chirpy Baker – from his ‘job’ selling  boxes of stolen records aged 12 to working as a music critic at the now legendary NME.  

Baker’s father, known as ‘Spud’, was a well-known local character who, according to recent press reports, will be portrayed by Peter Kay in the new TV version.  

Baker has penned the screenplay along with lauded TV scribe Jeff Pope – the pair go back a long way having worked together years ago on The Six O’Clock Show. 

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