BCG Daily Monday 9th January 2017
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Talking Pictures rapped for racist language
A TV station has been censured for airing a 38-year-old interview in which a comedian used the word 'coon'.
Chortle, 9th January 2017London Live apologises for morning Trigger Happy shows
TV station London Live has apologised for showing people dressed in rabbit costumes simulating sex in an episode of Trigger Happy TV which went out at breakfast time.
Chortle, 9th January 2017Chewing Gum is as rude, tender and funny as ever
This half-hour episode is wrought with such care, attention and emotional nuance it could have been expanded into a play (let's not forget that the germ of the series came from Coel's National Theatre hit, Chewing Gum Dreams); there really is not a line out of place.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 9th January 2017Sofie Hagen interview
'Everything I say is 100 per cent true. That's where I get my kick from'.
Rob Garratt, The National (Scotland), 9th January 2017Making Bunny Boiler: From Edinburgh Fringe to BBC Three
They say 'write what you know' and I'd always been called a Bunny Boiler. I was a little sick of the expression getting bandied about. Girls getting called a Bunny Boiler all willy-nilly.
Rachel Jackson, BBC Writersroom, 9th January 2017Videos
Podcasts
TV & radio
The Museum Of Curiosity
Gallery 10, Episode 1 - Meeting Fifty-SixJohn Lloyd and his new curator Jo Brand are joined by Festival of the Spoken Nerd's Helen Arney, "goat-man" Thomas Thwaites, and captain of The Queen Elizabeth Aseem Hashmi.
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Series 2, Episode 2 - AlexHost Sue Perkins and captains Richard Osman and Josh Widdicombe are joined by Danny Baker, Gabby Logan, Adil Ray and Kate Williams to compete to earn the right to decide the greatest ever bearer of the name Alex.