UK Raw

"UK Raw" was a late-night studio show, concerning real people and their fetishes. Subjects include a naked magician, a bondage nightclub and a man who has invented a flatulence gauge. Extremely entertaining, although not for the faint hearted!

17 episodes of "UK Raw" were produced for UK television channel Five.

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Catch BABE TV, with Adam Lewis and his girlfriend Kelly Jacobs. They have turned their place into the hub of Babe TV: an adult website that broadcasts worldwide every night with Kelly as the star. STAR STALKER, Stuart Milnes has portfolio of pictures that would make a paparazzo proud. He has snapped virtually every celebrity and star you can think of. BUGMAN, the pest controller from Manchester who takes his work home with him and eats it. STRANGE LOVE, delving into the world of bondage within a loving context. We talk to two couples; witness what they like to do to each other; and visit a special club frequented by like-minded people.

Episode 3

TV ASCOT - Every year the highlight for a special group of race-goers is Ladies Day at Ascot. They’re transvestites who revel in dressing up in thousands of pounds worth of clothes. LUCY FIRE - A performance artist who goes to the extreme. She gained notoriety by angle-grinding her crotch and breasts in a shower of sparks protected by a metal bikini. Then she acted out a devil birth which ended with the her eating her own baby. And now Lucy performs a strip which doesn’t stop at her clothes. She takes off her skin as well. DEAD ELVIS - [Tony Hickson] http://www.imdb.co.uk/name/nm2192454/is a circus knife thrower from Newcastle. He hit his clown assistant who had to go to hospital and have six stitches in his shoulder. So Tony changed course. Instead, he devised a unique Elvis Presley impersonation …Elvis as though he had been dead for six months. GUT BARGERS - The Gut Bargers use their extremely large bellies to wrestle and barge into each other.

Episode 4

This 4-part episode includes SPLOSH, the amazing success of a magazine devoted to people who like to see girls covered in food. OCCULT, including filmed scenes no one in the media has ever come near including rituals and possession. We go UFO hunting with a serving prison officer who claims that he is personally in contact with aliens from outer space. And the fairy tale story of Carlo Little, the original Rolling Stones drummer before Charlie Watts. They begged him to play with them, but he quit after four gigs saying they were no good. Carlo’s lived with that decision ever since and now runs a hamburger van in the shadow of Wembley Stadium. We took him to Paris and facilitated a meeting with the Stones who greeted him like a long lost brother. And we’ve got the still pictures to prove it.

Episode 5

Meet: Vicky Lee, a successful glamour model for the tabloid newspapers and has sculpted her body with cosmetic surgery to make it commercially more attractive; Steve Miller, a spoof, fictional TV presenter called The Mad Manc who takes us on his tour of Manchester’s night life. Steve liggs his way around the clubs but unfortunately the doormen have not been informed of his VIP status; Dr Colin Leakey, who has spent most of his professional life on a quest to cultivate the world’s first fart free bean; and film maker David Wilkey, one of the most successful single film producers in Britain. He let us have a sneak preview on set of the next film he’s directing called The Slapstick Avenger. All of his work has a melodramatic plot ending up in a group of lovely girls covering each other in mud, food, oil , water or anything else to hand. They love the work, and so does David’s crew who have to shower the stars afterwards.

Episode 6

COMIC STRIPPER, G. Ida Sputem has been a stripper since she was 17 years-old. Now at 34 she is trying to change her role in life, and become a stand-up comic. TORTURE GARDEN, play doctor or nurse at NHS, London’s biggest fetish club , the Torture Garden.JAWS, Terry Cole just can’t stop breaking records. Whether it’s crawling for miles, balancing a milk bottle on his head, and dozens of pint glasses, fitness fanatic and strongman Terry has to do it. SAM AND THE BLADES, Samantha Kane used to be Sam Hashimi, a wealthy Iraqi businessman who made a bid in 1990 to take over one of Britain’s oldest football clubs, Sheffield United, known as The Blades. Now Sam is Samantha after a complete sex change two years ago and is attempting to become the football club’s Chief Executive.

Episode 7

The Birch Bottom and Lovitt Pony Club is a group of like-minded enthusiasts who go in for light-hearted spanking. They have a favourite game they like to play - Ponies and Mistresses. NUDE POETS - Two Russian poets got fed up being pelted with tomatoes and rubbish when they tried to put on outdoor poetry performances. A troupe of leather and bondage enthusiasts decided to give traditional English Morris Dancing a new twist. Brian Williams makes black and white films based on FBI photographs showing scenes of crime involving auto-erotic deaths.

Episode 8

For the first time on television a British dominatrix and her slave tell us what they both get out of it. A group of lads in Sheffield are determined to be budding Spielbergs . They make epic films like legend of Roy loosely based on Hollywood’s Conan the Barbarian. Bruno Beloff has a passion for zebras. He’s convinced he’s a zebra trapped in a human body. Pete Mastin and Trixie Le Marr are performance artists who are pierced in every conceivable part of their bodies.

Episode 9

What does a male stripper who has being doing it for years do when he wants to hang up his jock strap? He tries to become a serious actor. We follow him as he tries his hand at Shakespeare. The girls, however, want him to stick to stripping. A women’s workshop which has nothing to do with flower arranging. It teaches women how to look and act like men. Fat is not an issue any more. In fact it’s the main topic of a magazine. Only twenty stone models are allowed to grace the pages of BELLY magazine in various glamorous poses. One of the models is called Angel, we accompany her on a model photo shoot. During the week this group of lads from Dudley near Birmingham lead normal workaday lives, but come the weekend, they all turn into Alice in Cooperland, a tribute band to the great Alice Cooper complete with buckets of stage blood, stabbing, strangulation , electrocution and explicit sexual innuendo.

Episode 10

It’s sixties night for our last show. We look at the era that never went away, and the huge revival now going on. Angie Smith lives her life entirely in the sixties. Tattoo man Tim Lyons is totally covered in body art tattoos. UK RAW focuses on three completely mad and most inebriated alternative zoologists who hunt the world over for evidence of beasts mentioned in myths, fables or monsters sighted in various part of the world. Check out Kamikaze Freak Show, the Gut Bargers, Bugman, and Superdick."

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