Suggs: Love Letters to London

Suggs: Love Letters to London The Nutty Boy on Radio 4Love letters written to London, recorded live in one of his favourite places of all, Hoxton Hall, Suggs shares his fondest memories of the city with his unique wit, charm and musical highlights from his career. An authentic celebration of …

It’s Funny and It’s True

It’s Funny and It’s TrueLaughing at the things you’re not supposed toComedy is at its most powerful when it takes on our darkest fears, our hardest times, and transforms them into laughter. Julia Sutherland looks into the corners of fellow stand up comedians’ lives – performers who have chosen to …

Fred at the Stand

Fred at the StandAt home, on the stage at the StandFred MacAulay has always been at his very best on stage, and that’s where this returning BBC Radio 4 series brings him back to. There are no gimmicks, tricks or formats – no phone ins or talking points, just one …

Everybody Loves Sitcoms

Julia Sutherland Blog, Comedy, Just Julia, Radio

Sitcoms – the defining shared televisual experiences of our youth and the fabric of our very lives!! Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Father Ted, I’m Alan Partridge, The Vicar of Dibley, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld… Just some of my favourite TV shows EVER and all of them sitcoms.  I’m …

Pop Comedy

Al Lorraine Al's Adventures, Blog

This may spoil your future enjoyment of the Man Booker Prize, quadruple Oscar winning story; Life of Pi. I wrote a joke this week that I thought was bang on and no-one gave a damn.

Abandoning All Modesty

Richard Melvin Features, News, Podcasting, Radio

t’s the post New Year retrospective on the pre New Year sweatbox that was December. 2012 has been filed under“ Work/Templates/MASTERCOPY” for Dabster. We’ve seen pet projects graduate into commissions, we’ve strengthened existing relationships into new markets, delivered programming to be proud of and set up 2013 in a strong position with …