BCG Daily Sunday 8th December 2024
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Sunday with Bill Bailey: "I'll head up to the Ridgeway and watch the red kites"
The comedian likes to stay in and take it easy, or else head out of London to see some amazing fork-tailed birds of prey.
Rich Pelley, The Observer, 8th December 2024Laughter Lives: New Glasgow comedy event taking on suicide
The 'Laughter Lives' show is the brainchild of historian and suicidologist, Dr Simon Walker, a member of the university's Healthy Working Lives Group who has personal experience of both suicidal ideation and the stand-up circuit, where he goes by the moniker of Buckaroo Bon-Si.
Helen McArdle, The Herald, 8th December 2024Blackadder could return as a stage version
Ben Elton said: "Rowan keeps threatening to do a tour. But it's difficult to get him to do anything. He tinkers around with his cars."
The Sun, 8th December 2024Ashley Frieze (Part 2 of 3): Can AI music and comedy really be creative?
In my last blog, comedian Ashley Frieze talked about how he combined music and comedy using Articial Intelligence. His third AI music album Oh No! It's a Monkey Paw Christmas is out now under the pseudonym of The Incredible Jukebox...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 8th December 2024Lou Sanders: "TV panel shows still think about men first - women are decorations"
"In TV I still think men are the authority, and women are the sidepieces. So it feels like, 'Let's start with the men, and decorate with the women,'" Lou says.
Kitty Chrisp, Metro, 8th December 2024Videos
TV & radio
Supertato
Series 3, Christmas Special - Merry Sprouty Day - Part 2It's Merry Sprouty Day, but Evil Pea jumps onto Sprouty Claus's train and steals all the presents for herself!
War With The Newts
A dark and timely satire by Ed Harris, adapted from Karel Čapek's 1936 novel, about the destruction of mankind at the hands of a new species of newt.
Sorry, I Didn't Know
Series 5, Episode 4Nina Wadia, DJ Target, Eddie Nestor and Josh Jones join team leaders Chizzy Akudolu and Stephen K Amos to answer questions about black history. Eddie Kadi hosts.