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BCG Daily Sunday 2nd April 2023

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Blind Date. Paul O'Grady

Paul O'Grady: Donations since his death overwhelm Battersea Cats and Dog Home

Donations to an animal charity loved by Paul O'Grady have passed £100,000 since the star's death.

BBC, 2nd April 2023
Arabella Weir

Sunday with Arabella Weir

The comedian goes for a morning walk, drinks wine at lunch, tries to fix a bathroom shelf and is very proud of her roast potatoes.

Rich Pelley, The Observer, 2nd April 2023
Jim Davidson

Jim Davidson splits from fifth wife Michelle Cotton after 14 years

The TV star, 69, who hosted The Generation Game and Big Break at the height of his fame, told pals he is "gutted".

Hannah Hope and Ryan Parry, The Sun, 2nd April 2023
David Mitchell

David Mitchell: Has London reached peak toxicity?

The UK capital, stagnant with oligarchs, is now so discredited that even institutions such as the BBC are jumping ship.

David Mitchell, The Observer, 2nd April 2023
Eshaan Akbar

Eshaan Akbar review

The Londoner is argumentative, entertaining and full of bracing good sense as he catalogues his personal experiences of racism.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 2nd April 2023
Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2023. Ellie BW. Credit: Steve Ullathorne

Review: Sketch Off 2023 Final, Leicester Square Theatre

I guess April Fools Day was a pretty good day to have this year's annual Sketch Off Final, brilliantly hosted by waspish thespian Anna Mann (alias Colin Hoult).

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd April 2023

Larry and Paul's 'Broken News' brings a biting satirical update on the US gun lobby

When they posted the video on Twitter, it got a massive thumbs up.

Oonagh Keating, The Poke, 2nd April 2023

Videos

TV & radio

BBC Radio 3 8:30pm
95 min
Alan Bennett - Forty Years On. Alan Bennett

Kafka's Dick

Alan Bennett's comedy about one of the most miserable writers of the 20th century. Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod, returned from the dead (Kafka metamorphosing from a pet tortoise), find themselves in the suburban home of Sydney, a Kafka fanatic and his less literary minded wife, Linda. Brod spends the entire drama trying to hide the fact that he did not burn Kafka's papers, as promised, but had them all published, thus making his friend one of the world's best-known writers.

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