BCG Daily Saturday 18th July 2020
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Steve N Allen: help us save live comedy
What do I, whales and the NHS have in common? It's not that we're all larger than is probably needed. There have been campaigns to save us. Not me in particular, but the Save Live Comedy campaign has been launched (visit savelivecomedy.co.uk).
Steve N Allen, The Hackney Gazette, 18th July 2020Idris Elba interview
'I didn't set out to do a comedy, I set out to tell the story of my life'. Idris Elba tells Georgia Humphreys about his semi-autobiographical show, In The Long Run, why community matters and what's next for the iconic character Luther.
Georgia Humphreys, Belfast Telegraph, 18th July 2020Idris Elba & Jimmy Akingbola interview
Idris Elba on making sure In The Long Run reflected racial realities.
Craig McLean, Radio Times, 18th July 2020Sexual abuse on comedy circuit has been ignored
The comedy scene in Scotland harbours an "insidious" culture of sexual harassment and exploitation, female performers have claimed.
Marc Horne, The Times, 18th July 2020Sally Phillips on her life today
"It's far from a worst-case scenario to have a child with Down's syndrome." We asked the 51-year-old actor, writer and comedian what her younger self would make of her life today.
Madeleine Howell, The Telegraph, 18th July 2020Ricky Gervais wants lions to eat his corpse after death
After Life star Ricky Gervais has admitted he does not care about his physical body and loves the idea of tourists seeing his corpse being ripped apart by lions at a zoo after he dies.
Ed Gleave, Daily Star, 18th July 2020Videos
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The Leak
Series 11, Episode 2Tom Price and guests with a comic take on the week's news. This week Josie Long, Darren Harriott and Huge Davies join Tom to see if they can shed some light on the events of the last seven days. The answer is - almost certainly - that they can't.