Will Gompertz

The Big Yin chats to BBC arts editor Will Gompertz in this special, filmed in Glasgow's King's Theatre where he first began performing. Connolly covers everything from his Parkinson's diagnosis to his passion for folk music and Hollywood stardom with his signature vim.

David Walliams & Robbie Williams collaborate on musical

Two of the UK's biggest stars, Robbie Williams and David Walliams, are behind the Royal Shakespeare Company's new musical, The Boy in the Dress.

The show has been adapted from the novel by Mr Walliams, with songs co-written and co-composed by Mr Williams. It tells the story of the issues that arise for a 12-year-old boy called Dennis, who is his school football team's best striker and wants to wear a dress.

BBC arts editor Will Gompertz spoke to them and to the RSC's artistic director Gregory Doran.

My festival: Will Gompertz

"I left school at 16 and worked in a local supermarket stacking shelves. I loved every minute of it."

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 - Double Art History

Now 10 years after making his sell-out Fringe debut, BBC Arts Editor and presenter Will Gompertz returns to Edinburgh once more - for one week only - this August with Double Art History.

Will Gompertz reviews: Only Fools & Horses The Musical

The only snag is it's also a bit like his famous yellow, three-wheeled motor; as in it occasionally misfires and never really gets going.

Will Gompertz reviews Stan & Ollie

It doesn't attempt to poison their legacy, but to celebrate and acknowledge it, while contemplating what it must have been like for this odd couple to come to terms with each other, their shared past, and uncertain future.

Will Gompertz reviews Idris Elba's In The Long Run

That the show makes Only Fools and Horses feel edgy came as a bit of a surprise, given its creator is the actor Idris Elba.

Edinburgh Fringe: Why comedians need to get serious

found myself sitting at a comedy gig at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the other day and having a Richard Pryor moment. It was a decent show, by an established comic, musing on the vagaries of life. It was funny and well observed but all I could think was, what am I doing here? I wanted something different. A comic who would use his or her wit to interrogate some of the big issues we're facing.

Audio: How well does comedy travel?

Stand-up comedy has become a central part of British and American culture in recent years. But how is this culturally specific form of performance seen in other countries? Comedians Igor Meerson and Francesco de Carlo, who are performing at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, told Today presenter James Naughtie and the BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz about how their humour goes down with audiences in Scotland.

Mackenzie Crook unearths metal detector sitcom

Mackenzie Crook has now written and directed a BBC Four sitcom about metal detector enthusiasts, which was screened in Edinburgh on Monday.