BCG Daily Sunday 12th November 2023
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Features
Press clippings
How comic-turned-writer Natalie Haynes found feminism in mythology
Natalie Haynes swapped the macho world of comedy for the male-dominated world of the classics and became one of our most acclaimed writers, retelling ancient myths from a feminist perspective. As her new book is published she lets rip to our Writer at Large.
Neil Mackay, The Herald, 12th November 2023
Love Actually: one thing we really should cancel
Richard Curtis's nadir is turning 20. How has it become a festive classic?
Hadley Freeman, The Sunday Times, 12th November 2023
Graham Linehan: 'Standing up for women cost me my livelihood and my marriage'
Father Ted creator on the success of his comedies and how his income has suffered as a result of his trans views.
Angela Wintle, The Telegraph, 12th November 2023
Andrew Doyle among GB News shareholders with voting rights
Very few of the 28 staff awarded shares enjoy any rights over the company. Only Nigel Farage, weekday daytime presenter Michelle Dewberry and comedy presenter Andrew Doyle have received shares with voting rights, and they collectively own less than 1% of the company's voting stock.
Bron Maher, The Press Gazette, 12th November 2023
Crypto trader hijacks Neil Innes' Twitter account
Fans of the unofficial 'seventh Python' were bamboozled to find graphs about Bitcoin, NFTs and other volatile investments on their timeline - from a mysterious user called @lukaxnft. They included comic Dave Gorman, who managed to discovered that the account had previously been owned by Innes, who died in 2019, under his own name.
Chortle, 12th November 2023
Eddie Izzard review
The comedian's decision to revisit four decades of comedy hits doesn't entirely pay off.
Jay Richardson, The Telegraph, 12th November 2023
Bill Bailey wants to do another heavy metal album
Bill Bailey has the material for an In Metal Part 2, and he's not afraid to use it.
Merlin Alderslade, Louder Sound, 12th November 2023
Jin Hao Li interview
"I'm building towards my first hour, which has to be excellent and immortalised."
The Prickle, 12th November 2023TV & radio
4:30pm30 min
The Exploding Library
Series 3, Episode 3 - Parable Of The Sower, by Octavia E. ButlerDesiree Burch unravels Octavia Butler's visionary 1993 novel Parable Of The Sower, an eerily-prescient dystopian vision of society torn apart by climate change and greed.
7:15pm30 min
Who Runs The World?
Episode 2 - Independent WomenCatherine Bohart does the maths on Westminster's pub-to-nursery ratio, before sitting down with Conservative Peer Baroness Warsi to discuss detoxifying the corridors of power.