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Audio: Stephen Fry interviews Nina Conti and Monkey

An extended interview with Nina Conti, who talks to Stephen Fry about the significance of mouth control. She is aided by Monkey, who speaks for himself on the subject.

Stephen Fry plays God in Holy Flying Circus

Funnyman Stephen Fry sports a "divine beard" for his new TV role - as God.

Fresh from its BAFTA triumph, Horrible Histories has been promoted from CBBC and rewarded with a Sunday teatime slot on BBC1, albeit as a "best of" compilation. But the highway to stardom will always have the roadkill of heartbreak abandoned on its hard shoulder. Despite having played an integral part in the show's success - even enjoying a name-check in the theme song - the talking rat has been deemed surplus to requirements as host. Stephen Fry has been ruthlessly installed as the puppet's replacement, and shame on everybody who had a hand in it.

Stephen Fry named charity president

Stephen Fry has been named the new president of a mental health charity.

Stephen Fry meets his own tattoo portrait

Stephen Fry came face to face with an unusual portrait of himself.

Horrible Histories with Stephen Fry, based on the best-selling books by Terry Deary, has been making youngsters (and a few adults) chuckle for three series quietly on the CBBC channel. Having been the surprise winner of Best Sketch Show in the British Comedy Awards - which, not to put it down, was in part to do with lack of competition - it has been awarded the dubious honour of a promotion to BBC1, with its best bits repackaged with spurious links from Stephen Fry.

The sketches are still good fun, including the ones you might have seen on YouTube already where King Charles II raps and the Vikings do a soft rock number, but the point of Fry is lost on me: he's in a studio half-heartedly decorated with random historical objects basically repeating what the sketches have already told us more amusingly ("No one really knows how much of the story of Troy is true and how much is myth," he intones: well, thanks for that Stephen, otherwise I obviously would have assumed that Menelaus really did greet Helen with "you is well fit, innit?").

It's a bit like those 'adult' editions of the Harry Potter books with different covers for people who didn't want to look as if they were reading a children's book, even though they were.

Stephen Fry leads cast for Borrowers adaptation

Stephen Fry, Victoria Wood, Robert Sheehan and Sharon Horgan have been cast in a BBC adaptation of The Borrowers, due to air this Christmas.

Stephen Fry and Victoria Wood to star in The Borrowers

BBC's new 90-minute adaptation of Mary Norton's novels will broadcast over the festive season.

Horrible Histories' talking puppet rat, Rattus Rattus, moves aside to allow Stephen Fry to take the helm as presenter for this new prime-time version of the children's factual show. It's not a new series per se, more a collection of sketches from the first two series. Highlights include a dandy Charles II rapping about the Restoration - "I'm the king who brought back part-y-ing"; an episode of Historical Mastermind with Shakespeare, whose specialist subject is "phrases what I made up"; and a Viking rock group. Despite its frivolous premise there are serious messages, and the show always takes care to ridicule bullies and violence.

Stephen Fry changes "Dam Busters" dog name to 'Digger'

The Dam Busters dog will be renamed for a new version of the classic war movie, it has emerged. Stephen Fry, who is writing the film's screenplay, said there was "no question in America that you could ever have a dog called the N-word".