Stephen Fry

Unthinkable? A Stephen Fry-free Friday

Can the inexhaustible polymath not grant us mere mortals one day a year in which to gather our own thoughts?

Stephen Fry wallet woes with Qantas

He wasn't quite trending, but the world's best-known tweeter caused more chaos for Qantas after he was stuck on the tarmac after engine problems with his London-bound plane.

Fry reunited with lost wallet during nightmare journey

Stephen Fry is breathing a sigh of relief after airline bosses returned the wallet he lost during a nightmare journey from Australia to London.

Stephen Fry backs Rhythmix charity in X Factor row

Stephen Fry has backed a charity in their argument with Simon Cowell and The X Factor.

Radio Times' pick of the week: Warhorses of Letters

Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby (who won a BAFTA for his portrayl of Eric Morecambe on BBC2 this year) play the corresponding horses of Napoleon and Wellington. The series is written by Robert Hudson and Marie Phillips], who explain the genesis of Warhorses of Letters - PM.

Annoyingly addictive parody of several parodies. If you liked that Ladies of Letters series on Woman's Hour, with a hint of 1066 and All That, plus gay jests, you'll like this. If not, avoid. It's February 1810 and this is an imagined correspondence between Copenhagen (Daniel Rigby) and Marengo (Stephen Fry), the first being Napoleon's horse, the second Wellington's. Copenhagen starts as more of a gusher in 21st century mode (he signs with a hoofprint and kiss kiss) than grave Marengo. Remember, Waterloo looms. By Robert Hudson and Marie Phillips.

Radio Times review

You can guess where writer Tony Roche (The Thick of It, Fresh Meat) throws the TV Biographical Drama Rule Book, can't you? Yes, right through an open window, because Holy Flying Circus, about the furore of moral panic and hypocrisy that greeted the 1979 cinema release of Monty Python's Life of Brian, usurps every bio-pic trope and convention.

Thus Holy Flying Circus is littered with dream sequences and wanders off down some fantastical little byways (a bit too often, if truth be told) as we build up to the infamous ambush, on the live TV chat show Friday Night... Saturday Morning, of John Cleese and Michael Palin by an epically supercilious Bishop of Southwark and religious commentator Malcolm Muggeridge.

Roy Marsden is majestically effete and patronising as the bishop, Mervyn Stockwood, but the film belongs to Charles Edwards, who just IS Michael Palin, and Darren Boyd as John Cleese.

Oh, and Stephen Fry plays God. Of course. The whole thing is a mad mash-up of self-reference, cross-dressing, ribaldry and nonsense. I loved it!

Audio: John Lloyd - Creator of QI

Thursday nights ABC1, that's the time to be glued to your television or set your PVR to record.

QI -with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies - is a perennial favourite and so popular here in Australia that the world's first live interpretation of the show is coming to Australia this month.

John Lloyd is the creator and producer of QI.

Mary-Lou caught up with him at home in England.

Stephen Fry to play Napoleon's warhorse

Stephen Fry is swapping QI for gee-gee - starring as a horse in a new comedy drama.

Stephen Fry: Steve Jobs tribute

The quality I especially revered in Steve Jobs was his refusal to show contempt for his customers by fobbing them off with something that was "good enough".