Joe Lycett lands Radio 4 talk show
...about obsessions and guilty pleasures
17/08/2017 … Joe Lycett is to become a talk show host for Radio 4.
Thu 17 August 2017
A panel show for her
Radio 4 pilots a female-led topical comedy show
17/08/2017 … The BBC is to address the claim that panel shows are too male-dominated with a new topical show with a predominantly female line-up Radio 4 is piloting Where's…
Heckled by an exposed penis
Laura Davis recalls her Unforgettable Five gigs
17/08/2017 … Strangest audience member It’s a toss-up between one man who had to be taken out by security because he wouldn’t stop yelling ‘cats…
Radio 4 to launch new stand-up strand
Comedians' shows adapted for Sunday slot
17/08/2017 … Radio 4 has announced a new weekly stand-up strand.
Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
17/08/2017 … As a wide-eyed, sweet-natured idiot savant making dopey comments from a remote island in the windswept North Atlantic, there’s something of the Father Dougal…
Charlotte Gittins: Mirror Image
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Jay Richardson
17/08/2017 … Legend has it that come Armageddon, nuclear submarine commanders will try to tune to Radio 4 before assuming that London has been destroyed.
Lucy Pearman: Maid of Cabbage
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
17/08/2017 … Full marks for commitment to the idea, however loopy.
What's the worst room to perform in at the Fringe and why?
Edinburgh's biggest dives, by the comedinans who play them
17/08/2017 … Anything that has a ‘yurt’ in the title.