BCG Daily Monday 29th August 2022
Press clippings
Statue of comedy legend Bobby Ball is unveiled in Lytham
A huge statue of comedy legend Bobby Ball has been unveiled - and he'd be "piggin' chuffed" with it, said his wife yesterday.
Douglas Whitbread, The Daily Express, 29th August 2022Fringe tickets slump blamed on accommodation costs
Ticket sales for Edinburgh Fringe shows slumped by a quarter at some venues compared with 2019.
BBC, 29th August 2022
The Edinburgh Fringe is too long, too expensive and too gruelling. It must change or die
I've spent my whole professional life loving and writing about the Fringe. But rocketing rents, a lack of diversity and its overwhelming scale are pushing this world-class cultural crucible to crisis point. No wonder artists are asking themselves: is it worth the candle?
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 29th August 2022Podcasts
TV & radio
6:30pm30 min
Welcome Strangers
Series 4, Episode 4We meet a dog who loves reading novels, and an estate agent who rents out fairy tale hovels.
6:30pm30 min
Mark Steel's In Town
Series 12, Episode 2 - TringMark travels to Tring in Hertfordshire, home of the Natural History Museum, former private museum of Walter Rothschild, where he goes to see the exhibit of fleas dressed as Mexicans.