John Naughton (I)

Monty Python interview

GQ talks to the iconoclasts who challenged the British establishment and ended up global comedy royalty. John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle discuss the glory years, blazing rows, groupies and the Knights Who Say Ni... Say no more!

What happened when Dara O'Briain sat GCSE maths?

The School of Hard Sums presenter takes Radio Times's challenge to discover if today's exams are just too easy...

Overall, the production moved with elegance and grace, evincing a consummate blend of theatrical conventions and televisual tricks. Miller chose to 'place' the action in the seventeenth century, and to play it straight rather than in the slap-and-tickle mode which is often tried.

There has been much talk this week about The Times being a GBI (Great British Institution). Well, so is Panorama and so, perversely, is Blankety Blank (BBC1), unarguably the most fatuous show on British television, and, as such, eligible for institutional status. The only consolation to be derived from this on-going debacle is the thought that a TV programme can never be worse than its viewers; for the more stupid it is, the more stupid they are to watch it.