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BCG Daily Saturday 8th December 2012

Press clippings

This week's new live comedy

Previews of Austentatious, Chris Ramsey and Sam Simmons.

James Kettle, The Guardian, 8th December 2012

Cameron fails to make impression on Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan, the television impressionist, says David Cameron is 'impossible' to mimic because his voice is so 'indistinct'.

Tim Walker and Richard Eden, The Telegraph, 8th December 2012

Hugh Bonneville on playing messy tramp Mr Stink

The Downton Abbey actor joins Sheridan Smith, Johnny Vegas and Pudsey the dog in BBC's festive adaptation of David Walliams' children's story.

Susanna Lazarus, Radio Times, 8th December 2012

Can Dani Harmer act her age?

Can former star of the Tracy Beaker shows use Strictly Come Dancing to break out into a grown-up career?

Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 8th December 2012

Could there be a follow-up to Twenty Twelve?

Head of Deliverance Hugh Bonneville discusses the future of John Morton's hugely popular mockumentary.

Susanna Lazarus, Radio Times, 8th December 2012

Stephen Fry & Miranda Hart join life insurer petition

Celebrities back call after Friends Life rejects life and critical illness payout for cancer suffer Nic Hughes.

Jill Insley, The Guardian, 8th December 2012

DVD review: Ross Noble - Nonsensory Overload

Ross Noble's new DVD, Nonsensory Overload, does exactly what it says on the tin. The amount of material included on this three-disc package is almost as mental as the Geordie comedian himself.

James Harle, Giggle Beats, 8th December 2012

Videos

TV & radio

BBC Radio 5 Live 11am
60 min
Fighting Talk. Colin Murray. Copyright: World's End Productions

Fighting Talk

Series 10, Episode 18

With comedian Ian Stone, sports broadcaster John Rawling, journalist Brian Reade and former Liverpool and Scottish footballer Gary Gillespie.

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