Gone in 60 minutes! Ramseys sell out podcast tour
Duo now on course for the record books
28/02/2020 … Chris and Rosie Ramsey are to break the record for the world’s biggest live podcast audience after selling out their gig Newcastle’s Utilita…
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Fri 28 February 2020
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is 42!
And Radio 4 Extra is celebrating
28/02/2020 … Radio 4 Extra is to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy next week.
Bec Hill quarantined in coronavirus scare
Comic isolated after Hong Kong visit
28/02/2020 … Comedian Bec Hill has had to cancel a week’s worth of gigs after being quarantined for suspected coronavirus.
Big book deal for comedian Caimh McDonnell
Comic supernatural thriller out next year
28/02/2020 … Former comedian Caimh McDonnell has sold the book and screen rights to his latest novel – a comic supernatural thriller about a newspaper that reports…
Andree Melly dies at 87
Star of Just A Minute and Hancock's Half Hour
28/02/2020 … Andree Melly, the last surviving cast member of the Hancock’s Half Hour radio cast and a one-time regular on Just A Minute, has died at the age of 87.
Richard Ayoade pilots new game show
Players write the questions in Who's Asking?
28/02/2020 … Richard Ayoade is piloting a new comedy game show in which the players write the questions.
Channel 4 orders a new comedy from Brian and Domhnall Gleeson
New series about a 'misanthropic, narcissistic, fantasist'
28/02/2020 … Channel 4 has ordered a new comedy series from actor brothers Brian and Domhnall Gleeson.
Thu 27 February 2020
More comics join Teenage Cancer Trust benefit
27/02/2020 … The line-up of comics taking part in the annual Teenage Cancer Trust comedy night at London's Royal Albert Hall has been announced.