He’s got it in for them

Material from the BBC’s ‘golden age’ tends to be recalled through a heavily rose-tinted lens. Apart from Fawlty Towers, certain Monty Python skits and a few documentaries, I’m not sure it was all that

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200 years of Dickens on stage and screen

Comedy is a way of controlling embarrassment for Rhys James — so did writing his memoirs burst his balloon?

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