BCG Daily Sunday 13th February 2022

Rob Beckett interview

Rob Beckett on overcoming body shame and how playing with Lego helps his mental health.

Rose Matafeo picks her favourite rom-coms

She's the comic genius behind a hit BBC sitcom and she learnt everything she knows from movies.

This Is Going To Hurt review

The tone chops so violently between light and shade that sometimes it forgets to take the viewer with it, but Whishaw effectively embodies the bloodshot-eyed desperation of a macho-hours work culture where every slip can mean life or death.

Has Jimmy Carr ended his own career?

Carr has described his Netflix show as containing jokes which are, in his words, "career enders". Rightly or wrongly, he may turn out to be the prophet of his own demise. How meta is that?

Ed Gamble: Electric review

Ed Gamble is a lovely boy who wants to be a bad boy - and that chasm is as close as anything to a theme in his new stand-up tour.

Beryl Vertue obituary

Writers' agent who became a television producer with credits including Sherlock, Men Behaving Badly and Coupling.

Interview: Class Dismissed child actor Elijay Anderson

12-year-old Elijay Anderson, from High Heaton, made his debut on CBBC show Class Dismissed season 6 last year, playing the role of Year 8 pupil Kaden.

Comedians join the line-up of Laugharne Weekend

The line-up this year includes Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jen Brister, Nick Revell, Mark Thomas and Fast Show star-turned-author Charlie Higson.

Robin Ince will reprise his 2021 Linda Smith lecture, which involved talking and smashing a watermelon. The Linda Smith Lecture was established in 2015 as an annual event to celebrate the much missed comedian's life and work and to reflect on the comedy business.

Mums slam This Is Going To Hurt for 'dangerous, misogynistic' views on birth

The BBC's new show This Is Going To Hurt has come under fire from women on social media who aren't happy with the way women's pain while giving birth is presented in the adaptation.

Katherine Ryan's daughter Violet diffuses bust-up at Leicester gig

A fight broke out between two members of the audience during comedian Katherine Ryan's gig at the DeMontfort Hall last night. Katherine's rarely-seen daughter, Violet, went onto the stage after the scuffle broke out to give the crowd a good telling off - which was met with praise and laugher by the audience.

May I have a word about... the UK Pun Championships

we should never forget the UK Pun Championships, won last week by Richard Pulsford. A good pun should be truly groanworthy and Mr Pulsford acquits himself honourably on that front: "I used to work in a lighthouse - I still get flashbacks"; "Doorbells. You can't knock 'em"; "Rocket countdowns? Don't get me started."

New film is 'a love letter' to British pubs, an institution under threat

About 11,000 locals closed in the past decade, and Covid hasn't helped. The movie Mother's Pride highlights their struggle.