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BCG Daily Thursday 3rd April 2025

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William Stone. Copyright: BBC

How to design an Edinburgh Fringe poster

Comedian and designer William Stone explains how to make good artwork.

William Stone, Chortle, 3rd April 2025
Julie-Yara Atz

Rarely Asked Questions: Julie-Yara Atz

Julie-Yara Atz is one of the comedians at the next Arabs Are Not Funny! comedy night at the Royal Albert Hall Elgar Room on Friday, April 24.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd April 2025
Ed Byrne. Copyright: Roslyn Gaunt

Ed Byrne: 'I've never done therapy. It would make me less funny'

As he kicks off his new tour, the comedian talks male privilege, ADHD and how he copes with grieving his brother.

Helen Brown, i Newspaper, 3rd April 2025
Stage door sign on a brick wall

The Orange Of Truth interview

We (Jen & Terje) are international teachers and performers, but we live in different countries (England and Norway) so we're thrilled to be reunited to perform our duo show, The Orange of Truth!

Phoenix Remix, 3rd April 2025
Six the Musical

Six The Musical Live! - cinema review

It captures all the magic of a live show, while also allowing the audience to view all of the incredible detail that's gone into making Six what it is.

The Spy In The Stalls, 3rd April 2025
Paul Currie

Paul Currie brings High Court libel claim against Soho Theatre

A London theatre is being sued at the High Court by a comedian who received a lifetime ban and was branded "antisemitic" after a clash with a Jewish audience member.

Evening Standard, 3rd April 2025
The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan. Mo Gilligan

Mo Gilligan review

Riotous red-carpet relatability from a big-hearted comic.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 3rd April 2025
Johnny Vegas

Johnny Vegas's sculptures go on display

An exhibition of Johnny Vegas's sculptures is opening in Liverpool later this month. Metamorphosis will feature work that has been inspired by the comedian's ADHD, which he has described as an 'accursed blessing'.

Chortle, 3rd April 2025
The Good Life. Image shows from L to R: Margo Leadbetter (Penelope Keith), Tom Good (Richard Briers), Jerry Leadbetter (Paul Eddington), Barbara Good (Felicity Kendal). Copyright: BBC

Incredible value of four-bedroom home where The Good Life was filmed

The property, which was bought for £475,000 in 2007, would fetch £1.5million today.

Daily Mail, 3rd April 2025
Six the Musical

Six in cinemas review

Never overstaying its welcome and finding the sweet spot between artistically opulence and needless overindulgence, this is a poised and unruffled tribute to one of the best British musical tributes of the century. Crowns all round.

Alex Wood, What's On Stage, 3rd April 2025

The pub owned by a Python

Monty Python star Terry Jones, created what turned in to a pioneering microbrewery at Penrhos Court, Herefordshire, when he helped finance a venture.

BBC, 3rd April 2025

Mhairi Black: Being Me Again review

The former MP is a force of nature in this excellent documentary.

Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 3rd April 2025

Four Mothers: comic spark shines through the farce in this pertly scripted crowd-pleaser

Director Darren Thornton's charming Irish remake of Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch (2008) follows the misadventures of Edward, a people-pleasing debut novelist who is left to entertain his friends' elderly mothers while they jet off to Maspalomas Pride.

Nick Davis, British Film Institute, 3rd April 2025

TV & radio

Sky Atlantic logo. Copyright: Sky 10pm
60 min
Small Town, Big Story

Small Town, Big Story

Episode 6 - The Turd Man

Wendy returns to Drumbán whilst others gather in the woods.

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