A bitingly funny and unflinching take on class, sexuality, mental health and substance abuse.
After a recent break-up, Alma tries to get her life back on track. But with no job, no qualifications and a rebellious streak a mile wide, it is not going to be easy. Meanwhile, her heroin-addicted...
Sixteen sparkling episodes of the iconic comedy panel show
BBC Radio 4's longest-running panel game returns for the first time since the death of much-missed maestro Nicholas Parsons, who chaired the show for more than 50 years. Following in his footsteps for Series 86 are an array of special guest...
Twenty-four episodes of the popular topical comedy show, chaired by Andy Zaltzman.
With its brilliant blend of the silly, the serious and the satirical, The News Quiz has been a must-listen for comedy fans since 1977. Recorded in front of a virtual audience, these three series see Andy Zaltzman presiding...
Once again, Cornley Drama Society return to the BBC with six shows performed live for the public to 'enjoy'. Sadly, they are as inept as ever, this time with the added complication of an internal feud that spills out into open, incompetent warfare.
In the idyllic and beautiful Kent countryside, known as the Garden of England, the Larkins have a achieved a small patch of paradise where nothing is wasted, and they enjoy life to the full.
There's an overwhelming sense of plenty in their lives and a lot of joy and raucous...
Bill Bailey's brand new stand-up tour, Larks In Transit, is expected to be released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Mark Steel tells the story of his own adoption, at the age of 10 days.
A book from Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran collecting together scripts from pilot episodes of their most celebrated shows, with essays on each.
Richard Griffiths partners Elaine Stritch in this classic London Weekend Television comedy charting the outrageous complications that frequently arise in the domestic lives of a transatlantic couple. Based on scripts for the long-running American sitcom Maude (itself a spin-off of All in the Family, America's remake of Till Death Us...
One of the premiere comic performers from the second half of the 20th century, Marty Feldman struck a high water mark with his ATV series from the early 1970s: The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine.
The brainchild of M*A*S*H producer Larry Gelbart and co-starring anarchic comedy genius Spike Milligan, these fourteen...
There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . .
A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the...
Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . .
Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight...
Based on David Percival's acclaimed play Girlfriend, Girl Stroke Boy is a one-of-a-kind comedy that tells of two everyday, middle-class parents who are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian (actor and pop star Peter Straker in a pioneering performance).
Directed with...
One of the most unsettling films in the Peter Sellers canon, Hoffman sees the actor in a sinister starring role as a bachelor who obsesses over his secretary (Sinéad Cusack) and, discovering that her boyfriend (Jeremy Bulloch) has been fiddling the books at work, blackmails her into spending a week...
It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was how to do it. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seems a fair price for a man's life. Particularly if you don't know the...
Are you ready for fatherhood?
DON'T PANIC - dad and comedian George Lewis is here with all the seriously useful practical and emotional advice that you need to keep you (and your partner) sane!
From birth to pre-school, EVERYTHING you need to know is here. And even better, it's packed...
When it comes to adult life, and parenthood, you will never be ready. So what happens when you hit your mid-thirties and still feel like an out-of-depth teen trapped in the slightly sagging skin suit of a tired and tested mother of two?
Join comedian Sophie McCartney as she shares...
Inspired by her award-winning podcast, Griefcast, You Are Not Alone is Cariad Lloyd's frank, funny and compassionate exploration of grief.
When Cariad Lloyd lost her father at the age of fifteen, people didn't talk about death. Years later, when she created Griefcast, it started a conversation that people didn't realise...
Meet Waffle, a magical talking pup who lives with the Brooklyn-Bells. Waffle can't help causing trouble, fun and adventure wherever he goes. Join Waffle and the Brooklyn-Bells for an hour of wag-tastic fun.
Includes:
Series 2 Episode 3 - Waffle & The Kitten
Series 2 Episode 2 - Waffle Is Unwell
Series 2...
A book about coercive control and toxic relationships.