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BBC Radio's Christmas 2017 highlights
BBC Radio has announced its festive comedy offerings for 2017. Radio 4 will celebrate 50 years of Just A Minute, whilst other specials include comedy drama Anansi Boys, 15 Minute Musical, Dead Ringers and Count Arthur Strong.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2017Lenny Henry: I was the unhippest comic in the universe
The comic turned actor explains why radio gives him more creative freedom than TV - and why comedy's ready for a revolution.
Sarah Carson, Radio Times, 15th November 2017Lenny Henry compares contemporary comedy to punk
Sir Lenny Henry has said the comedy world's reaction to the current political climate reminds him of punk in the late 1970s.
Jason Chester, Daily Mail, 7th November 2017Sir Lenny Henry to make BBC documentary
Sir Lenny Henry is to make a documentary for the BBC entitled Lenny Henry: The Commonwealth Kid.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th October 2017Radio Times TV 100
Who are the hottest talents on television now? RadioTimes.com asked some of the most powerful TV executives and broadcasting bigwigs in Britain to name the stars they believe have had an exceptional 12 months.
Radio Times, 18th September 2017Dawn French says racists tried to burn down her house
Dawn French says racists tried to burn down house while she was married to Lenny Henry.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 17th September 2017Exclusive interview: Dawn French
Attacked by racists, stitched up by a biographer, exasperated by body-shaming, inequality and lasses on the lash -- Dawn French, queen of comedy, is in no mood for a laugh.
Eleanor Mills, The Times, 17th September 2017Lenny Henry on Ofcom and diversity
The BBC is failing to meet its own targets on diversity. To change things we need to look beyond our TV screens at who commissions and makes the programmes.
Lenny Henry, The Guardian, 1st August 2017Lenny Henry: onscreen TV diversity is 'fake'
Lenny Henry has said the BBC will continue to demonstrate "fake diversity" unless it is forced to improve off as well as onscreen representation. The actor and comedian argued that broadcast watchdog Ofcom must set minimum standards for black, Asian, and minority ethnic diversity behind the camera.
Giverny Masso, The Stage, 18th July 2017Lenny Henry interview
Henry thinks of himself as an actor now rather than a comedian.
Robert Dex, Evening Standard, 3rd May 2017