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

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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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I could justifiably claim this year to have been a professional actor for 70 years. In 1956, when I was just 13, I was recruited to play the imaginary son of Eleanor Summerfield, the star of a Granada

WITH his floppy hat, duffle coat and suitcase full of marmalade sandwiches, Paddington is one of the most recognisable and beloved fictional characters of all time. In the stories, he was taken in by