Here's a totally tight, top-drawer portrait of Peter Sellers by the pros at Murray Street Productions. Presented by David D'arcy, whose arts reportage puts blood into many an NPR news program, there's not a minute wasted in this hour-long reinvigoration of the man who bent the vector of comedy in the second half of the Twentieth century (Seller's seminal "Goon Show" rippling into "Beyond the Fringe" resonating to Monty Python rebounding to Second City reigning o'er SNL et al).

Comprehensive and intelligent, "Independent Minds: Peter Sellers" is nevertheless unerringly funny, with plenty of primary source Sellers that's quite impossible not to laugh out loud at.

Everybody of a certain age remembers the moment he was sold on Sellers (mine when he, impossibly, embodied Jerzy Kosinski's literary Chance in Being There). But it must be only comedic polymaths who can blithely trace Seller's remarkably broad and lengthy oeuvre (myself never really into the Pinks), so, even for devoted fans, there's something to learn here. There's enough of The Man to satisfy inquiring minds without slighting The Art, and plenty of contemporary stars paying homage to Sellers to provoke curiosity in younger listeners.

"Independent Minds: Peter Sellers" could be advantageously slotted next to Fresh Air, or in place of a repeat show. It's a formidable enough presentation that PDs should consider scheduling an encore airing, for devoted fanatics – and the word-of-mouth the show is sure to provoke.