Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

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‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

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