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Wordy tribute celebrates Golden Age talents in BBC's centenary year
Monday 21st November 2022
Three actors, one script and dozens of names! The Golden Age of British Comedy is honoured in the first of six audio instalments.
Rogue Pun: Die Hard with a Rhyming Sentence
Monday 21st November 2022
As he takes the brilliant Yippee Ki Yay around the UK, we ask Richard Marsh: how did a poet end up doing Die Hard?
Comedy Chronicles: Michael Bentine - A Goon who should not be forgotten
Sunday 20th November 2022
In his centenary year, Comedy Chronicles addresses the remarkable and often-overlooked legacy and career of the multi-talented, fascinating Michael Bentine, co-creator of The Goon Show.
Here's A Funny Thing: Channel 4
Sunday 20th November 2022
Forty years since it was broadcast - during Channel 4's first month on air - we look at its production of Here's A Funny Thing, a hit one-man stage play about legendary music hall comic Max Miller.
My Comedy Career: Rupert Majendie
Friday 18th November 2022
Producer Rupert Majendie has a CV that includes hit live comedy shows, the film Brian And Charles and TV shows include Pls Like, This Time With Alan Partridge and King Gary. We caught up with him as he prepares to launch his next series, Live At The Moth Club.
British Comedy Quiz #229
Wednesday 16th November 2022
The Vicar Of Dibley, The Darling Buds Of May, Julian Clary and Brass Eye are mentioned this week... but who is Frederick Fowell?
Random 8: The Awkward Silence
Tuesday 15th November 2022
As they prepare to Enter the Vortex, The Awkward Silence take us back to water rat reverence and the battle of Rylance/Bottom.
Money: How much can you earn as a comedy writer?
Tuesday 15th November 2022
Most comedy writers don't earn a lot... now feels a good time to talk about what sort of financial pressures and compensations you can expect as a professional comedy writer.
Andy Zaltzman interview
Tuesday 15th November 2022
The man with the wittiest shed in sport and politics, Andy Zaltzman talks hasty rewrites, mourning comedy, and why he's hiding a giant wooden duck.
Jack Spring introduces Three Day Millionaire
Monday 14th November 2022
New film Three Day Millionaire follows a group of fishermen in Grimsby who set about spending their wages in three days. But it's only after spending it all that they discover they're not going to be re-boarding their ship to head back out and earn a fresh pay packet. Director Jack Spring introduces the project in this article.