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Blackadder's greatest episodes
With an ensemble cast that no other sitcom can ever hope to match, the show gave us plenty of memorable episodes, but we've tried to narrow them down to just a select few.
Rob Keeling, Cult Box, 25th October 2017Has comedy become too PC?
They say that much of the right-wing backlash being observed in the political mainstream across the world stems from how overly PC society has become. And if that's true, comedy may have a lot to answer for.
Jack Peat, The London Economic, 7th August 2017Bruce Dessau on 30 years attending the Fringe
The Edinburgh Fringe is 70 years old this year. Veteran comedy critic Bruce Dessau remembers 3/7ths of it. At least, he remembers the really odd stuff.
Bruce Dessau, FringePig, 7th August 2017Star comics on camera in their early Fringe days
A stash of film shot in the 1990s chronicles the rise of comedy's big names including Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Jo Brand.
Dan Glaister, The Guardian, 16th July 2017The stars who made it big at the Edinburgh Fringe
'I saw them long before they became famous' is a common Fringe-goer's boast. But, as Fiona Shepherd discovers, there's a good reason for that.
Fiona Shepherd, The Scotsman, 8th July 2017Stephen Fry announces mini book tour
Stephen Fry is to visit Brighton, Birmingham and Cardiff in November to read his new book Mythos, a vivid retelling of the Greek myths.
British Comedy Guide, 5th July 2017How comedy captured the Edinburgh Fringe: part 2
Our first instalment of this series covered over three decades, when the Edinburgh Fringe was almost without comedians at all. Now in Part Two, we find one year alone - 1981 - influences comedy more than all the previous Fringes put together.
Ben Venables, The Skinny, 6th June 2017The secrets behind the making of QI
TV viewers are baffled and bamboozled by QI's staggering facts. But the secrets behind the making of the quiz show are... Quite Incredible!
The QI team, Daily Mail, 3rd June 2017The Way Ahead: lecture transcript
Peter Florence, the supremo of this great literary festival, asked me some months ago if I might, as part of Hay's celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's kickstarting of the reformation, suggest a reform of the internet. Firstly let me say that, despite a lifetime immersing myself in what I consider the provoking, beguiling, bewitching and often befuddling joy of technological development, especially in the realm of information technology, networking and shiny digital devices, I am no computer scientist, coder or programmer. Many people, some of them no doubt here in this tent now, will know much more about the subject I'm going to discourse upon. Take this, if you take it all, as the offering of a curious mind, curious in both sense, avid for information and just plain odd.
Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry, 29th May 2017Hay Festival 2017: Stephen Fry's warning for the web
Stephen Fry has issued a stark warning to prepare for the future of the internet, or face the worst of science fiction's predictions.
Huw Thomas, BBC, 28th May 2017