BCG Daily Sunday 25th July 2021
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Press clippings
How a generation of TV comedy classics was lost forever
Every hit from Morecambe & Wise and Doctor Who has lost a few episodes along the way. Why did the BBC and others wipe the tapes?
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph, 25th July 2021Covid and woke - dare we be funny any more?
Katherine Ryan, David Baddiel, Nina Conti and more reveal why telling jokes is no longer a laughing matter.
Jonathan Dean, The Sunday Times, 25th July 2021Bill Bailey at Latitude 2021
How did Bill Bailey get to play the main Obelisk Arena at Latitude? "I'm a competition-winner," he jokes... that competition being a little thing called Strictly.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th July 2021Mark Watson at Latitude 2021
Between them, Mark Watson and Robin Ince are to Latitude what the ravens are to the Tower Of London. If neither of them is here, all cannot be well with the world.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th July 2021Nina Conti at Latitude 2021
Having the wrong audio track play at a crucial moment might have derailed some comedy sets, but today's snafu at Latitude's comedy arena seems perfectly in keeping with Nina Conti's well-managed chaos.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 25th July 2021Off The Rails review - a new low for British comedy
Three middle-aged women go Interrailing in an ash-scattering own-goal for European diplomacy.
Wendy Ide, The Observer, 25th July 2021First look at John Bishop in Doctor Who
John Bishop is about to step aboard the TARDIS as the Doctor's new companion Dan, and now an official photo of him in character has been released sending Whovians worldwide wild.
Victoria Johns, The Mirror, 25th July 2021I went to Latitude and only watched comedy. Here's why
From the ingenious Bill Bailey to the giggling Katie Pritchard - even if you ducked the music, the 2021 Latitude Festival was a feast of fun.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 25th July 2021Sunday with Alan Davies
The comedian says training with the five-year-old starts at 9am, out the back of the house.
The Observer, 25th July 2021TV & radio
Joseph Andrews Remixed
Episode 2Joseph continues to wander the byways of England and have adventures that reveal humanity's foolishness in Shaun McKenna's remixed version of Fielding's comic satire of the day.
Arthur Smith: Syd
Arthur Smith's show about his father Syd. From Al Alamein to Colditz to patrolling the streets of post-war London, an ordinary man in extraordinary times.