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This page lists all the articles, interviews and other features BCG has published. There are more than 4,000 articles to read in this section.   RSS feed

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Only Fools And Horses fruit machine Features

Fools Gold

Wednesday 23rd November 2022

Comedy merch is not just for Christmas.

Pat And Margaret. Image shows left to right: Pat Bedford (Julie Walters), Margaret (Victoria Wood) Quiz

British Comedy Quiz #230

Wednesday 23rd November 2022

This time: Dave Allen's missing digit, Victoria Wood and Julie Walters characters, some Sykes questions, Field Marshal Haig, and more.

Rosie Wilby Live

Random 8: Rosie Wilby

Tuesday 22nd November 2022

Sex toys, barbecue swimming and Superdog: Rosie Wilby takes the ultimate eight-question test.

Golden Age of British Comedy tribute. Image shows left to right: Henry Dawe, Mary Piercy, Scott Simpson Features

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.

Yippee Ki Yay. Richard Marsh. Credit: Rod Penn Features

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?

It's A Square World. Michael Bentine. Copyright: BBC Features

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. Max Miller (John Bardon) TV

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.

Brass Eye. Chris Morris. Copyright: TalkbackThames Quiz

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?

Image shows left to right: Ralph Jones, Vyvyan Almond, The Awkward Silence Live

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.

Andy Zaltzman Live

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.

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