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Peter Sellers. Copyright: BBC
Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

  • English
  • Actor, writer and comedian

Peter Sellers features

Image shows left to right: Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe Features

Comedy Chronicles: The Great Tiddlywinks Caper - Goons, Royals and Cambridge games

Sunday 23rd February 2025

The story of the time The Royal Family asked The Goons to represent them in a game of tiddlywinks against the University of Cambridge.

I'm All Right Jack. Fred Kite (Peter Sellers). Credit: STUDIOCANAL People

Win a copy of the new Peter Sellers biography

Thursday 3rd October 2024

Peter Sellers remains one of Britain's favourite comedy stars more than 40 years since his death. A new biography, Best Sellers, examines his career in detail and we have two to give away.

Peter Sellers: A State Of Comic Ecstasy. Peter Sellers Features

Comedy Chronicles: 'A very small pebble in a very large pool' - When Peter Sellers broke up with the BBC

Sunday 11th August 2024

Graham McCann recounts the bitter feud between Peter Sellers and BBC executive Tom Sloan.

Kind Hearts And Coronets. Image shows from L to R: Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), Sibella (Joan Greenwood). Copyright: Ealing Studios Features

Comedy Rewind: In the family name - Kind Hearts And Coronets

Sunday 23rd June 2024

Take a look at the internationally renowned Kind Hearts And Coronets on its 75th anniversary.

Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows left to right: Sidney Balmoral James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock). Credit: BBC Live

Hancock's Half Hour on the stage at 70

Thursday 9th May 2024

Ahead of comedian Tony Hancock's centenary and the 70th anniversary of sitcom Hancock's Half Hour on radio, actor and producer John Hewer discusses his new stage production of three scripts from lost television episodes.

Educating Archie. Peter Brough. Copyright: BBC Radio

Steam radio: a Baby Boomer's personal memory of post-war wireless comedy

Thursday 7th March 2024

With ever-more BBC radio archival treats now available to buy and enjoy again, self-identified Baby Boomer Hercules Grytpype-Thynne shares his personal memories and pays tribute to some of the biggest shows of the post-war era in this ode to brilliant comedy on the wireless.

Film Fun: Tony Hancock Features

Comics in comics

Sunday 17th September 2023

Julian Dutton looks at the comic strips that have featured comedians. Tony Hancock, Terry-Thomas, Harry Secombe and Ken Dodd were amongst those featured in publications like Film Fun - it's a rich history of how comedians were perceived.

Water Rats Features

Comedy Chronicles: Fraternally Yours - The Brotherhood of British comedy

Sunday 9th April 2023

Graham McCann looks at the formation and membership of show business clubs The Grand Order of Water Rats and Masonic Chelsea Lodge No 3098.

The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC Features

Comedy Chronicles: In search of lost time - Remembering The Last Goon Show Of All

Sunday 9th October 2022

Itself produced as part of the BBC's own 50th birthday celebrations, The Last Goon Show Of All marks 50 years since its broadcast this month - so, what of comedy reunions?

The Ghost Of Peter Sellers. Image shows from L to R: Peter Sellers, Peter Medak, Spike Milligan Features

Comedy Chronicles: Close but no cigarette - When Milligan & Sellers met Benson & Hedges

Sunday 18th April 2021

103 years after his birth, Comedy Chronicles recounts the remarkable tale of Spike Milligan's involvement with Peter Sellers and an advertisement for cigarettes.

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