Bob Geldof’s fight to stage Live Aid leads BBC2 autumn drama

12 April 2012

Bob Geldof's battle to stage Live Aid after being inspired by the Ethiopian famine is to be turned into a TV film, it was announced today.

When Harvey Met Bob is being billed as a "hilarious and deeply moving" drama about the Irish singer's collaboration with promoter Harvey Goldsmith to stage the global concert.

Domhnall Gleeson will play former Boomtown Rats star Geldof, and Ian Hart will play Goldsmith.

Filming has already begun in Dublin and it will be screened as part of this year's autumn and winter BBC2 schedule, revealed today.

This also includes Top Gear presenter James May's quest to become a "real man" in Man Lab, in which he will brush up skills such as wooing a lady and defusing a bomb.

The channel is spotlighting history after focusing on science earlier this year. Among programmes will be a look at the lives of Pompeii's population before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Janice Hadlow, controller of BBC2, said: "This new season reflects BBC2 at its most ambitious and distinctive, bearing the early fruits of the extra investment in drama and offering viewers some fantastic new mainstream comedies alongside the greatest range of factual programming on TV."

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