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BCG Daily Saturday 4th June 2016

Features

Press clippings

Review: David Baddiel

Funny and challenging show about his parents.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 4th June 2016

How Peter Kay became one of the best-loved comedians

Peter Kay is one of Britain's best-loved comedians. His 2010 tour is in The Guinness Book of Records as the most-successful comedy tour of all time, having entertained an incredible 1.2 million people.

Alan Shaw, The Sunday Post, 4th June 2016

How the most complicated comedy on TV made it big

It crosses a cop show with reality TV and the lead doesn't have a clue what's going on. So why are stars like Paul Whitehouse desperate to get involved?

Jack Seale, The Guardian, 4th June 2016

Breaking The Bank is an amiably silly comedy

It plays a bit like Carry On Banking, but that's no bad thing, and there are some memorably snappy one-liners -- Charles works 24/7, meaning 24 hours a week, seven months a year.

Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 4th June 2016

Meet the new inhabitants of Successville

To celebrate, the good folk at Tiger Aspect have let us in on a little more about this year's murder victims and the suspects, who is playing who, and exactly when you'll be able to see them... plus a set of exclusive images across this post of most of our regulars in action. You'll probably notice there's a distinct lack of Paul Kaye in this images, but more on that one soon... until then, here's a run-down of each episode!

The Velvet Onion, 4th June 2016

Cold Feet stars celebrate finishing filming

James Nesbitt, Fay Ripley, John Thomson and Robert Bathurst enjoyed a low key wrap party at Artisan in Spinningfields, Manchester, to celebrate finishing filming the new series of Cold Feet.

Manchester Evening News, 4th June 2016

Victoria Wood tribute at Manchester station draws fans

Victoria Station briefly became Victoria Wood Station as hundreds of fans celebrated the comedian's life and career.

Helen Pidd, The Guardian, 4th June 2016

Joanna Lumley reveals that Patsy is transgender

"It's completely normal that Patsy is transgender."

Paul Jones, Radio Times, 4th June 2016

Arthur Smith: 'I just saved a Glaswegian's life'

Live from the streets of Glasgow, Martin Walker spends 15 minutes chatting to Arthur Smith. They talk about his Edinburgh Fringe doings and Arthur selects a couple of songs that he quite likes.

Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 4th June 2016

Videos

Podcasts

TV & radio

Russia Today 10:30pm
30 min
Sam Delaney's News Thing. Sam Delaney

Sam Delaney's News Thing

Episode 21 - John Prescott's News Thing

The nation's favourite Deputy, Lord Prescott, takes on Ken Livingstone as he holds the fort for Sam this week.

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