BCG Daily Wednesday 6th January 2021

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Rob Beckett

Comedy podcasts round-up 2: from home and abroad

We're still some way off being able to see live performances in actual clubs and theatres, but here are some more comedy podcasts to keep your laughter quotient healthy in the meanwhile.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 6th January 2021
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?. Image shows from L to R: Florence Ransom (Dawn French), Selina Mountjoy (Jennifer Saunders). Copyright: CPL Productions

Need a laugh? It's French and Saunders to the rescue

When the days are cold and dark and the times are bleak, you have to take the laughs where you can get them. So thank goodness for Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, charging to the rescue like knights on a white stallion - or perhaps more like two drunk aunties on a pantomime horse.

Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 6th January 2021
Nica Burns

The Stage Awards: Nica Burns wins producer of the year

"When my staff turn up for work their eyes are smiling and they skip in" - tireless efforts to keep the lights on in her West End theatres have earned Nica Burns the award for producer of 2020.

The Stage, 6th January 2021
Staged. Image shows from L to R: David (David Tennant), Michael (Michael Sheen). Copyright: BBC / Simon Ridgeway

Staged - Series 2

Painfully funny.

The Stage, 6th January 2021
R.I.P - Rest In Peace
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen)

Why Sacha Baron Cohen finally revived Borat

"I felt democracy was in peril."

Brent Lang, Variety, 6th January 2021
Johnny English Strikes Again. Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson). Copyright: Working Title Films

Rowan Atkinson's wrong to dismiss modern British comedy

The Blackadder star may have a point about cancel culture, but his dismissal of British comedy by saying that The Big Bang Theory is better than most British comedy makes him look desperately out of touch.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 6th January 2021
James Cary

Habits of highly effective writers #5: ditching

In the last post, I suggested you that if you want to be a better writer, you need start writing and keep writing. In fact, make a habit of writing. Now I'm telling you to stop writing. I don't mean stop the habit. I mean stop trying to write that thing you've been writing for ages that isn't really going anywhere.

James Cary, Sitcom Geek, 6th January 2021
Only Fools And Horses. Image shows from L to R: Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst), Del (David Jason), Grandad (Lennard Pearce). Copyright: BBC

Only Fools superfan turns his barber shop into shrine

Nathan Scotford, 39, has ran the Only Fools And Horses themed barber shop on Bouverie Road, Folkestone for a number of years.

Lauren MacDougall & John James, Kent Live, 6th January 2021
Tom Allen. Copyright: Andy Hollingworth

Tom Allen on football

The comedian and TV host talks about his eye-catching punditry stint for Soccer Saturday and how it showed him attending a live game can and should be for everyone.

Sachin Nakrani, The Guardian, 6th January 2021

Videos

Podcasts

TV & radio

CBBC logo. Credit: BBC
8:10am
10 min
Danny & Mick. Image shows from L to R: Danny (Danny Adams), Mick (Mick Potts). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Danny & Mick

Series 3, Episode 3 - Artful Bodgers

Danny destroys a freshly painted mural just as it is about to be photographed.

YouTube
9am
27 min
No More Jockeys. Image shows from L to R: Mark Watson, Alex Horne, Tim Key

No More Jockeys

Christmas & New Year Specials - Twelfth Night Press Conference

A special "Fumble Day" exhibition match of the memory game played by Alex Horne, Tim Key and Mark Watson.

Radio 4
11:30am
30 min
The Cold Swedish Winter. Image shows from L to R: Linda (Sissela Benn), Geoff (Adam Riches). Copyright: Unique Productions

The Cold Swedish Winter

Series 5, Episode 4 - Vasaloppet

Married to his Swedish partner Linda, with two children to impress, Geoff is keen to embrace every Swedish rite of passage. A 90km ski-ing race may prove a step too far.

Radio 4
6:30pm
30 min
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 2, Episode 2 - It's Just Work

Joanna gets distracted by a work project, which means spending a lot of time with a much younger man. When Roger points out that she's never at home, she tells him 'It's just work'. But is it?

BBC Radio 4 Extra
10:30pm
15 min
Harriet Kemsley

Comedy Catalysts

Series 2, Episode 3 - Josie Long On David O'Doherty

Multi award-winning comic Harriet Kemsley invites her peers to celebrate the trailblazing comedians who inspired them to pick up the mic. In this episode Josie Long talks about her hero David O'Doherty.

Radio 4
11pm
15 min
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 7, Episode 1

The great comic actor Kathy Burke reveals the joy of amusing police officers by giving them 'the fingers' in her 50s, and explores the art of eating crisps in bed.

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