A profile of Eric Barker. He is best-remembered these days for his roles in countless British film comedies from the middle of the 20th-century, including several of the Carry Ons. That, however, is merely the tip of the iceberg.
Benny Hill is noted as one of British television's great comic minds, but, entwined with producer Dennis Kirkland his fall from grace at the end of the 1980s is more complex than is often described.
There has never been anyone quite like show business operator Martin Lewis. This profile particularly focuses on his work helping to create and grow Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball comedy fundraising shows.
Comedy and politics regularly mix, but there has long been a significant hesitation amongst television broadcasters to poke fun during election campaign periods.
There was a time, roughly from the 1950s to the 1990s, when it seemed as though just about anything that was funny, as well as dramatic, that was going on inside a British theatre had arrived there courtesy of Bernard Delfont. Here's an in-depth profile of the entertainment impresario.
Writing comedy. Some like to do it standing up; some prefer sitting down; and others have ended up lying flat out on the floor. Graham McCann examines how some of Britain's finest comic minds got their words down on the page.
A profile of Lew Grade, one of the most powerful TV executives who - via companies such as ATV - defined the comedy that appeared on television from the 1950s onwards.
