Ade Edmondson stars in this hilarious sitcom about an aging punk rocker forced to move into a student flat with his kids - much to their annoyance.
Ex-rocker Vernon (Adrian Edmondson) is a former front man for a punk rock band called The Plague. After living off his wife for...
In this 1978 black comedy from director Peter Medak, Graham Chapman - just prior to Monty Python's Life Of Brian - stars as happily married Arthur Harris, who becomes suicidal when his wife suddenly leaves him. Unable to complete the task himself, he asks a strange handyman (BAFTA Award winner...
Author, curmudgeon and master of the complaining letter and the abusive email, Ed Reardon is back for a 16th series of this award-winning BBC radio comedy.
"Are you really the doctor?"
As a black doctor working on the front line of the NHS, Matt Hutchinson hears these words all too often. In this book, he offers a compelling glimpse into the unvarnished reality of working in healthcare as a member of an ethnic minority.
Tracing his...
When a noxious hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. But nobody else does, including some quite crucial players like the police and the coroner. Eitan's colleagues are already treating him with suspicion following his recent breakdown, and are sceptical of his increasingly...
At the end of each year, four pupils from Cyril Sniggs's Correctional Orphanage for Wayward Boys and Girls are banished to Sin Bin Island, an eerie place surrounded by eel-infested waters.
Legend has it that the island has a secret tunnel, used to smuggle magic into mainland England. But in...
The official, definitive, true story of the life and work of screen, stage and radio icon Sidney James, written in conjunction with his children, Reina, Susan and James.
Much has been written about Carry On favourite Sid over the years, but most of it confuses his on-screen persona with his...
Young Once is the hilarious and heart-warming memoir of actor and comedian Nigel Planer.
Most famous for playing Neil the hippy in The Young Ones and a pillar of the 80s alternative comedy (The Comic Strip Presents and Bad News), and inspired by a recent sold-out tour where the audiences...
A second volume from author Tom Salinsky, covering Red Dwarf's seventh TV series onwards, plus all the spin-offs in other media.
Unbelievably, Red Dwarf came back. Its first six series from 1988 to 1993 were quite an achievement, and it's likely we would still be remembering it fondly if the...
Many people think they know who Ben Elton is - but does he?
For the first - and only - time, Ben tackles this question head on in his frank, forthright and entertaining autobiography. Taking a deep dive into his life and times, both private and public, to reveal the...