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Tawny Pipit DVD
Release date: Monday 26th July 2021
This beautiful and atmospheric British film was made in rural England during WW2 as a show of defiance against those who threatened the English way of life!
Jimmy Bancroft (Niall MacGinnis) is a fighter pilot convalescing in an English village, from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain. Along with...
Anna Cale - The Real Diana Dors Hardback
Release date: Friday 30th July 2021
The story of Swindon-born film star Diana Dors is one of fame, glamour and intrigue. From the moment she came into the world, her life was full of drama. Her acting career began in the shadow of the Second World War, entering the film world as a vulnerable young teenager...
Michael Legge - Strawberries To Pigs
Release date: Sunday 1st August 2021
Selected extracts from Michael Legge's popular blog, which ran from 2008 to 2019, and newer material.
John Osborne - A Supermarket Love Story
Release date: Sunday 1st August 2021
A new book coming this summer.
Robert Wringham - Stern Plastic Owl
Release date: Sunday 1st August 2021
A collection of short essays and flash fiction compiled by Robert Wringham.
Simon And Laura Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 2nd August 2021
Multiple-award-winning screen legend Peter Finch stars alongside Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow and Ian Carmichael in this whimsical satire on then-BBC programming that prefigures the current reality TV landscape by fifty years! Adapted from Alan Melville's hit West End play and directed by Oscar-winner Muriel Box, Simon And Laura is featured...
James McNicholas - The Champ & The Chump Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th August 2021
A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family, based on the acclaimed stage show. For fans of books by Dave Gorman, James Acaster and Danny Wallace, along with boxing tales from the likes of Tyson Fury and Ricky Hatton.
The Champ: Terry Downes - known as 'The Paddington Express'...
Heated Rollers Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 12th August 2021
The first ever all-female BBC Radio 2 sketch show.
Three top female actors show off their comedic talents in the very first all-women sketch show written for BBC Radio 2. In these six episodes, Lynda Bellingham, Gwyneth Strong and Joanna Monro present a feast of skits and music with a...
Jacob Hawley: On Drugs Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 12th August 2021
Stand-up comedian Jacob Hawley explores every corner of the UK drugs scene, from nightclubs to prisons.
In his first BBC Sounds podcast series, New Comedy Award finalist Jacob Hawley examines one of the most important issues affecting young people today, looking into every aspect of British drug culture to discover...
Will Any Gentleman..? Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 16th August 2021
Harking back to the phenomenally successful Aldwych farces of the 1930s, Vernon Sylvaine's hilarious adaptation of his own hit West End play stars George Cole on top form as a bewildered bank clerk caught up in a series of unfortunate events! Directed by Oscar-nominated Michael Anderson and co-starring Veronica Hurst,...
Charley's Big Hearted Aunt Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 16th August 2021
One of a series of hit wartime comedies starring Arthur Askey as everyone's favourite cheeky chappie, Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt co-stars Arthur's partner-in-crime, Stinker Murdoch, alongside Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. Energetically directed by Walter Forde (who would re-team with Askey and Murdoch a year later for The Ghost Train), this...
The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain DVD
Release date: Monday 16th August 2021
Hugh Grant stars as a young man who offends an entire town by declaring their mountain - a prized local landmark - to be a "hill". But he soon finds the eccentric locals, led by a witty innkeeper (Colm Meaney), will stop at nothing to defend their honour.
While the...
Neil Martin - The Psychology Of Comedy Hardback
Release date: Wednesday 18th August 2021
What makes us laugh? Why is comedy so important? How does comedy affect our behaviour?
The Psychology Of Comedy provides a unique insight into the role of laughter and humour in our lives. From the mechanics of comedy and what makes a good joke, to the health benefits of laughter,...
Miles Jupp - History Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 19th August 2021
A satirical, tragicomic story about a man on the edge, from actor and comedian Miles Jupp. For readers of Jonathan Coe, Mark Watson, Michael Frayn and David Nicholls.
Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches at is consuming his life, no thanks to wretched headteacher Timothy Crouch....
The Small Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 19th August 2021
Gerald C Potter is the proud author of Death in the Arboretum, described by the Bournemouth Echo as 'well-written'. He works hard on his books, and worries about every comma, adjective and unfortunate typo: but somehow, he never seems to get very much done. However, his wife and fellow novelist,...
I, Regress - The Complete Series 1 & 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 19th August 2021
All 10 episodes of the dark, surreal comedy featuring Matt Berry's twisted regression therapist.
Unorthodox, unpredictable and verging on the unprofessional, Dr Berry is a deeply disturbing hypnotherapist. His experimental regressive technique is both strange and terrifying and involves taking unsuspecting clients on unsettling journeys through their subconscious.
Each episode...
HighLites Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 19th August 2021
All six series of the BBC radio comedy centred around a village hairdressing salon - plus pilot episode.
Based in the little town of Bridgeford, High-Lites salon boasts the most misanthropic hairdresser in Britain: sharp-tongued, mean-minded Bev. With the help of her soft-hearted (though slightly dim) assistant, Shirley, she tends...
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - The Complete Series 9 Audio Download & CD
Release date: Thursday 19th August 2021
The complete ninth series of BBC Radio 4's award-winning sketch show.
John Finnemore returns with his multi-award-winning sketch show, but this series is very different to the previous eight. There are still sketches and songs, and it's still written and performed by him and his usual fantastic ensemble cast -...
Ed Reardon's Week 14 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 19th August 2021
The complete Series 14 of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy - plus Christmas special.
In these globally unprecedented times, Ed is also experiencing new and unusual circumstances. For the first time in 20 years, he's financially independent thanks to the timely arrival of his state pension, and living in...
Say The Word Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 19th August 2021
Frank Delaney's witty wordplay panel quiz game.
Frank Delaney's language based panel quiz game series revolves around the English language. This upbeat, fun word battle sees a host of well-known contributors battling to say the word first. The series is filmed in front of a live audience at a wide...
A Whole 'Nother Story Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 26th August 2021
All 16 episodes of Amanda Murphy's sitcom about the will-they-won't-they romance between best friends Cassie and Pete.
Cassie's 30, single, and miserable. All her friends are getting married - even Ugly Paula (albeit to someone on a life sentence in a Kentucky prison) - but nobody loves her. Except for...
Ed Patrick - Catch Your Breath Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 26th August 2021
A gut punch of a memoir by a doctor - and comedian - whose job is to keep people alive by putting them to sleep.
Ed Patrick is an anaesthetist.
Strong drugs for his patients, strong coffee for him. But it's not just sleep-giving for this anaesthetist, as he navigates...
Mitchell On Meetings Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 26th August 2021
David Mitchell investigates how the humble meeting took over the world - and what we should do about it.
In this fantastic follow-up to Behaving Ourselves: David Mitchell On Manners, the comedian and columnist turns his attention to meetings, examining our love/hate relationship with them and asking how we evolved...
Robert Sellers - Raising Laughter: How The Sitcom Kept Britain Smiling In The '70s Hardback & eBook
Release date: Wednesday 1st September 2021
For the first time the stories behind the making of every sitcom from the 1970s will be told by the actors, writers, directors and producers who made them all happen.
Aside from providing entertainment to millions of people, the sitcom is a window into the culture of the day, and...
Max: Hymns & Arias - The Selected Stories, Songs And Poems Of Max Boyce
Release date: Wednesday 1st September 2021
Few entertainers epitomise the term 'national treasure' like Max Boyce. From his humble early years touring the clubs of his native south Wales, to his sell-out performances before thousands at some of the world's most iconic venues, to British prime-time stardom, Max has firmly cemented himself as one of these...
Mark Steel's In Town - Series 9 & 10 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
In these two series of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 show, comedian Mark Steel is on the road again, visiting places that have nothing in common but their uniqueness. Along the way, he delves into the history, heritage and culture of each town, before going on to write and perform...
Sukh Ojla - Sunny Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
Sunny is the queen of living a double life. On the one hand, she's thirty, flirty and thriving. But on the other, she's just moved back in with her parents while all her friends are getting married, buying houses and having babies. To complicate matters further, she's a secret serial...
Chris & Rosie Ramsey - Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. Paperback
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
SH**GED
Saturday nights out on the tiles, undying crushes, dating like it's a competitive sport, awkward tales of dating woes, one-night stands, the walk of shame, ghosting, tears and break-ups.
MARRIED
Finding 'the one', meeting their parents, first holidays and romantic weekends away, engagement rings, big moment proposals, wedding bells, the hen...
Michael Palin - Diaries 1999-2010 (Volume 4) Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
A hotly-anticipated fourth volume of diaries from writer, comedian, actor, broadcaster and national treasure, Michael Palin.
Matt Lucas - My Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Silly Book Of Games Paperback
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
The brand-new, boredom-busting book of GAMES from multi-award-winning actor and comedian Matt Lucas - star of The Great British Bake Off and creator of Thank You, Baked Potato, an official UK download chart-topper and Amazon bestseller!
With laugh-out-loud artwork from Sarah Horne, illustrator of the bestselling [i]Charlie Changes Into A...
Shappi Khorsandi - Kissing Emma Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
From widely acclaimed comedian and author Shappi Khorsandi comes a modern fable about the rise and fall of a beautiful, but vulnerable, young woman in a world obsessed with fame and fortune.
Emma and her mother are down on their luck. They're taking turns sleeping on the sofa in her...
Mo Gilligan - That Moment When: Life Stories From Way Back Then Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
You might know Mo as the critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, BAFTA-winning presenter, Masked Singer judge and social media mega star. But do you know the moments that really made him? Opening up on the turning points, the good times, the challenges and the lessons learned, this is Mo as you've...
Private Eye: The 60 Yearbook Hardback
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
Private Eye: The 60 Yearbook is a history of the last 60 years, as seen by Britain's first, most successful and indeed only fortnightly satirical magazine. From the Beatles to Brexit, JFK to Trump, the Moon landings to the Mars landings, it tells the story of the past six decades...
Katy Birchall - Sex Education: The Road Trip Hardback
Release date: Thursday 2nd September 2021
Maeve's brother is in deep trouble. He is desperate for her help - he says they only have each other to rely on. But with Aimee, Otis and Eric by her side, Maeve has the support she would never admit she wanted.
Dream Horse DVD
Release date: Monday 13th September 2021
Jan Vokes, a cleaner and bartender, recruits her reluctant husband Brian and local accountant Howard Davies to help her bring together a syndicate of villagers to breed a foal - which they raise on an allotment and name Dream Alliance.
On the racetrack, he proves himself to be more than...
Millport - The Complete Series 1-3
Release date: Monday 13th September 2021
All 18 episodes of the BBC radio sitcom about a 30-something barmaid living on a tiny Scottish island.
Irene Bruce spends her days pulling pints in Millport, the only town on the Isle of Cumbrae, a few miles off the west coast of Scotland. Frustrated and going nowhere fast, she...
Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
The second novel in TV presenter and producer Richard Osman's record-breaking new crime-solving Thursday Murder Club series.
David Jason - A Del Of A Life: Lessons I've Learned Paperback
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
In celebration of Sir David Jason's 80th year, A Del Of A Life: Lessons I've Learned relives Jason's extraordinary life and career from over 50 years in entertainment.
From a trainee electrician to one of Britain's most revered and loved actors, Jason shares heartfelt and hilarious wisdom with readers on...
Completely Staged Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
Starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, along with A-list guests, the award-winning and critically acclaimed British television comedy series Staged was an instant hit. Launched during the global coronavirus pandemic, the show follows the two thespians playing fictionalised versions of themselves as they try to rehearse a play during lockdown......
Phil Wang - Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once Audiobook, Hardback, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
"But where are you really from?"
Phil Wang has been asked this question so many times he's lost count. So, finally, he decided to write a book about it. About how to be from two places at once.
Phil was born in the UK, in Stoke-on-Trent to an English mother...
Bob Mortimer - And Away... Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
The long-awaited first autobiography by national treasure Bob Mortimer.
Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his...
Josh Widdicombe - Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
"Read any history of the Nineties in Britain and you will read about Britpop, Blair, the birth of the Premier League and the rise of new lads. I played no part in any of these events. Growing up in a tiny rural village on Dartmoor, no bands came within 100...
Alex Horne - Bring Me The Head Of The Taskmaster: 101 Next Level Tasks Hardback
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
101 next level tasks (and clues) that will lead one ordinary person to some extraordinary Taskmaster treasure.
Alex Horne
noun
1. comedian, writer, gambler, taskmaster, podcaster, birdwatcher, potential neologist and father.
Gyles Brandreth - Odd Boy Out Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
"I am what my childhood made me."
But what is that exactly, Gyles?
Who are you? And why?
In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and coming of age in an apparently well-to-do but always strapped-for-cash middle-class English family.
It is a story about...
Miriam Margolyes - This Much Is True Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life...
Rob Auton - I Strongly Believe In Incredible Things Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
A book of poetic prose, musings, short stories and biro drawings detailing a selection of the Earth's incredible things by award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton.
Unique, enchanting and utterly life affirming, this is a collection of pages that come together to create the opposite of the news,...
Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation - The Complete Series 1-10 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 16th September 2021
Few can forget where they were in September 1993 when they first heard Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation. The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. Since that fateful first series,...
Rich Hall - Nine Gigs
Release date: Thursday 23rd September 2021
A heavily fictionalised memoir from comedian Rich Hall
Rigor Mortis Audio Download
Release date: Friday 24th September 2021
All 18 episodes of the sitcom set in the fascinating but misunderstood world of the pathology lab.
Meet Dr Anthony Webster and Dr Ruth Anderson, two pathologists attempting to live normal lives in an atmosphere of death, decay and seriously unpleasant smells. Anthony loves his chosen profession, finding every cadaver...
Big Screen British Comedy Blu-ray
Release date: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Three of the most popular and long-running BBC comedy series hit the big screen in four film adaptations featuring the original casts - Dad's Army, Steptoe & Son, Steptoe And Son Ride Again and Are You Being Served? - three appearing on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere.
Dad's Army...