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Rare Douglas Adams heads for CD
03/03/2004 … The BBC is to release a collection of rare recordings of Douglas Adams to mark the 25th anniversary of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
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Wed 03 March 2004
Tue 02 March 2004
His Balloon's burst
Fringe comic sacked from Cowgate project
02/03/2004 … The comic who boasted that his venues on the gutted site of the Gilded Balloon would change the face of the Edinburgh festival has been sacked from the project.
On Clyde nine...
Win Glasgow Comedy Fest tickets
02/03/2004 … The Glasgow International Comedy Festival kicks off on March 17, with headline acts including Johnny Vegas, Al Murray, Jerry Sadowitz and Jimmy Carr.
Mon 01 March 2004
Oh, happy Day
Unseen Day Today pilot out on DVD
01/03/2004 … A never-before-seen pilot episode of The Day Today is to be included on a new DVD.
Sellers market
01/03/2004 … A previously unseen interview with Peter Sellers is to be released on DVD.
Sat 28 February 2004
Hughes ready for a pint?
Sean takes his tiny audience out for beer
28/02/2004 … Sean Hughes took his entire audience out for a pint when only 25 people turned up to see him.
Racist jokes 'are OK'
Blacks, Muslims and gays deemed fair targets
28/02/2004 … Most Britons still think it's perfectly acceptable to joke about blacks, Muslims or gay people.
Attaboy, Aterman
Canuk comic takes Hackney crown
28/02/2004 … Canadian actor Peter Aterman has won this year's Hackney Empire new act final.