Kim Fuller

Preview - Lenny Henry: A Life on Screen

Sir Lenny Henry has been part of British TV since the 1970s when he won talent show New Faces in 1975 at the age of 16. Since then he's done sitcoms, sketch shows, stand-up, the stage, children's TV and charity work.

Hard to imagine why Kim Fuller's nimble comedy is going out here when, nightly at 6.30pm, there's mainly preaching and screeching. Here's the start of a new series of medieval goings-on, with wonderful James Fleet as Sir John, bewildered by his children, at the mercy of twists of fate which sound very familiar to modern ears. It's the age of dungeons but everything (apart from Merlin's talking sausages) is pretty much like today, from WAGs being forbidden to go with their knights on Crusades, to Sir John Chilcot's enquiry into Dragons of Mass Destruction.

Douglas Adams' final Dirk Gently novel to be adapted for Radio 4

Spice World writer Kim Fuller has been enlisted to adapt and complete Douglas Adams' final and unfinished Dirk Gently novel for BBC Radio 4.

Did they have estate agents in the Middle Ages? Central heating, junk mail and double-glazing? They did according to The Castle, a six-part comedy from Kim Fuller.

Deep in ye olde countryside, 18-year-old Lady Anne Woodstock is looking for a husband. Or rather, her father is trying to find her a husband, while Anne drools over a strapping young commoner. More suitable suitors come and go - but none looks like he's in with a chance till Sir William De Warrene arrives back from the Crusades. Can Anne turn down a man voted one of the most eligible bachelors in the kingdom by Esquire magazine?