Ipswich - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

• In the original version of the famous Dead Parrot sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, the shopkeeper played by Michael Palin claims that Ipswich is the palindrome of Bolton.
• Ipswich is mentioned in a children's television show watched by the character Stewie Griffin in Family Guy.
• Ipswich was the base of operations for Russian 'illegal' agent Valeri Petrofsky in the Frederick Forsyth novel, The Fourth Protocol (and the later film based on the novel).
• Michael Palin wrote a 1987 comedy about provincial English seaside holidays in the 1950s, entitled East of Ipswich.
• In 2006, The Jarvis Cocker Record contained the track "From Auschwitz to Ipswich" written and performed by Jarvis.
• In Stardust, starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller and Robert De Niro, Ipswich is mentioned at the beginning of the movie when Sienna Miller as Victoria says of her fiancé, 'I can't exactly say no, after he's gone all the way to Ipswich!'.
• In the Doctor Who episode "The End of the World" after the Doctor tells her to stay where she is Rose Tyler says 'Where am I gonna go, Ipswich?'
• In the Pilot episode of Queer as Folk, after Nathan asks Stuart if he could meet him later that night, Stuart answers 'God knows where I'll be tonight, you know, I could be anywhere. I could be in Ipswich!'
• Matthew Freeman, from the Anthony Horowitz novel The Power of Five, is sent to Ipswich after the death of his parents.
• In the Tim Minchin song "Some People Have It Worse Than I", there is the line 'I could be an Ipswich prostitute', referring to the 2006 Ipswich serial murders.
• Ipswich was featured in the BBC Radio comedy series Cabin Pressure in 2009.
• Britain's biggest baby girl, who was born with a weight of 14 lb 4oz, was born on 20 February 2012, at the Ipswich Hospital..