BCG Daily Wednesday 13th June 2018
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Creating 4 comedy monologues for the Biggest Weekend
Over the last 12 months, we have been busy here in the BBC Writersroom building relationships with BBC live music festivals in order to generate opportunities for new writers to gain their first broadcast credits by writing a 60 second monologue short, produced as part of the festival outreach.
Celia Morgan, BBC, 13th June 2018How This Country became a hit with millennials
Hating the pilot but loving a YouTube clip the Coopers had made of a Scrabble-playing Kerry screaming to her mum "Is Dave a word?", the producer was clear: "The big thing we all wanted was that it should have the appearance of reality."
Royal Television Society, 13th June 2018Jason Manford interview
Stuart HolmesSalford-born Jason Manford explores what it's like to raise middle-class kids after climbing the social ladder.
Stuart Holmes, Big Issue North, 13th June 2018Pat Cahill picks his Perfect Playlist
I can't wait to get to the point in a career where I've got some really solid outtakes.
Chortle, 13th June 2018Matt Berry Interviews... review
The first episode of Matt Berry Interviews... draws on a 1974 chat with spoon-bender Uri Geller - "quite the Bojangles"
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th June 2018Alison Spittle: the Edinburgh interviews 2018
Alison Spittle interview.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 13th June 2018Why Blackadder writers reinvented him after series one
35 years ago, it's fair to say that the now-beloved sitcom was a very different beast to begin with.
Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 13th June 2018Alternative Comedy Memorial Society review
Where do safe hands and pop-up anarchy meet to conspire and create - and hopefully amuse in new and interesting ways? The Alterative Comedy Memorial Society!
Victoria Nangle, The Latest, 13th June 2018An interview with Nathan Cassidy
The Fringe would not be the same without the mercurial genius of Nathan Cassidy - thank the stars he'll be back in Edinburgh this August...
The Mumble, 13th June 2018An interview with Short & Curly
Rebecca Shorrocks (Short) & Paul F Taylor (Curly) are coming to Edinburgh this August. The Mumble managed to catch them for a wee blether.
The Mumble, 13th June 2018Comedy review: Doug Stanhope
Too much of the material had the air of a comedian self-consciously trying to manufacture outrage.
Clive Davis, The Times, 13th June 2018Fringe Q&As: Michael Patrick
Michael Patrick on his new show, My Left Nut, the contrast between Belfast and Edinburgh and blacksmithing.
Linda Howard, The Herald, 13th June 2018Fringe Q&As: Michael Patrick
Michael Patrick on his new show, My Left Nut, the contrast between Belfast and Edinburgh and blacksmithing.
Linda Howard, The Herald, 13th June 2018Videos
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10:45am15 min
House Rules
Series 1, Episode 3Two meetings down and things aren't looking up for Amelia. Now an emergency meeting has been called.
11:30am30 min
Plum House
Series 2, Episode 3 - Black PuddingThe offer of an honorary degree at a less than prestigious ex-polytechnic sends Peter into a depressive spiral, as he questions whether he has wasted his life. The team call on the chief psychiatrist to the academic profession, the radical Doctor Bloch.
3:25pm5 min
Animal TV
Episode 8 - Mirabela The Mystery HousemateThere's trouble brewing in both Beastenders and Frisky Come Dancing, the new mystery housemate unsettles the Guinea Pig Brother contestants, and Animal TV launches its brand new gameshow, Who's in the Toilet?
4:40pm10 min
Bitz & Bob
Series 2, Episode 1 - Bitz's Big BuildBitz promises to build a strong house for Little Bo Purl's goats and for the three little pigs, one that big bad Robo Wolf can't blow down.
9pm60 min
Taskmaster
Series 6, Episode 7 - Roadkill Doused In SyrupIn this episode, Tim Vine encounters a wet bra, Alice Levine barely attempts cricket and Russell Howard makes a convincing liger.
10pm60 min
Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier
Series 1, Episode 5 - Jon RichardsonJon's wife and fellow comedian Lucy Beaumont is on hand to answer her stressed spouse's worries about himself - and their marriage. Jonathan Ross also guests.
10pm30 min
11pm30 min
Matt Berry Interviews...
Episode 1 - Uri GellerMatt Berry brings you his interview with Uri Geller, recorded at Geller's home in 1974 just as the self-proclaimed psychic's star was on the rise. Berry manages to get Geller to open up in this revealing and sometimes surprising interview.