
Comedy Chronicles Page 12
Eddie Braben
Sunday 18th October 2020
Graham McCann pays tribute to Eddie Braben, an exceptionally prolific and talented comedy writer best remembered for The Morecambe & Wise Show.
Arthur Lowe
Sunday 4th October 2020
The off-screen sitcom legend Arthur Lowe could be no less self-important than his on-screen characters, but in real life he also sought to sail the ocean blue...
Comedy and cancel culture
Sunday 20th September 2020
With growing concerns over censorship, intolerance and cultural revisionism, Graham McCann looks at comedy's historical urge to break free.
The Other One
Sunday 6th September 2020
Despite starring both Richard Briers and Michael Gambon, one late 1970s sitcom - from the writers of The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles - failed to make any public impression whatsoever. This was the other The Other One.
Strained Relationships: Wilfrid Brambell & Harry H Corbett
Sunday 23rd August 2020
Father and son, Albert and Harold Steptoe rarely stopped bickering on screen; and the off-screen relationship between stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett could be rather tempestuous at times, too...
Strained Relationships: Hylda Baker & Jimmy Jewel
Sunday 9th August 2020
As the Strained Relationships series continues, Graham McCann recounts the tale of another sitcom duo: comedians Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel.
Strained Relationships: Bewes & Bolam
Sunday 26th July 2020
In the first of a new series looking at the truth behind notoriously strained relationships between comedy stars, Graham McCann sets the record straight on the infamous falling out between Likely Lads icons Rodney Bewes and James Bolam.
Terry-Thomas
Sunday 12th July 2020
Thirty years since his death, Terry-Thomas remains the most English of screen stars. From 1968, however, the comedy icon lost his heart to a Spanish island in the middle of the Mediterranean...
Robert Morley
Sunday 28th June 2020
Actor Robert Morley was a food-loving, larger-than-life physical on-screen presence; something from which his real, personal life would rarely waver.