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Ken Dodd's widow saves 'invaluable' notebooks that he wanted to go up in flames
Before he died, comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd left his wife instructions to burn hundreds of private notebooks that he filled with jokes and thoughts about his life and six-decade career. However, she has revealed that after he passed away in 2018, she decided they were too important to destroy. Lady Anne Dodd saved the books and is now putting a number of them on public display for the first time.
Ian Youngs, BBC, 7th September 2023Happiness! Ken Dodd exhibition to open at the Museum of Liverpool
The comedian, who died in 2018, will be remembered in a new exhibition that brings together props, costumes and an interactive 'giggle map'.
Chris Wiegand, The Guardian, 20th July 2023Sir Ken Dodd's gift to Liverpool's next generation of performers
Sir Ken Dodd's comedic legacy is set to live on in Liverpool with a promise to uncover the next generation of comedians and actors from the city. The Ken Dodd Charitable Foundation will fund a new three-year scholarship at Liverpool Theatre School.
Jamie Greer, Liverpool Echo, 1st June 2023Ken Dodd Show with The Beatles recovered
A lost episode of The Ken Dodd Show from 1963 has been rediscovered, featuring a guest appearance and performance from The Beatles.
British Comedy Guide, 30th May 2023Lost 1955 Hancock's Half Hour episode recovered
A lost episode from the first radio series of Hancock's Half Hour has been discovered and will be broadcast on Radio 4 in October.
British Comedy Guide, 29th September 2022Ken Dodd statue is now at the Blackpool Grand Theatre
A bronze statue of Sir Ken Dodd has been unveiled at Blackpool's Grand Theatre.
ITV, 22nd July 2022Tattyfilarious show celebrates Ken Dodd's genius announced
The widow of legendary funnyman Ken Dodd has licensed all theatrical rights to his material -- the ticklish gags, comedy routines, Diddymen scripts and songs that had audiences rolling in the aisles over his six-decade career -- for an undisclosed sum to a top West End producer to create a theatre show about his life. I can reveal that Michael Harrison, who presents the pantomimes at the London Palladium and hit musical The Drifters Girl, among others, licensed the treasure trove of rib-ticklers from Lady Anne Dodd, who married the comedian two days before he died, aged 90, in 2018.
Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail, 11th February 2022Ken Dodd comedy drama in the works for ITV
Doddy, a comedy drama centred around Ken Dodd's 1989 trial for tax evasion, is in development for ITV.
British Comedy Guide, 24th March 2021Ken Dodd biography The Squire Of Knotty Ash to be published
Ken Dodd's wife is helping to write The Squire Of Knotty Ash... And His Lady, an "intimate biography" of the comedian.
British Comedy Guide, 7th December 2020Sir Ken Dodd and Cilla Black's gravestones 'vandalised'
The gravestones of entertainment stars Sir Ken Dodd and Cilla Black have been damaged in an act of vandalism that has left a council "appalled".
BBC, 27th October 2020