New Releases
Ballylenon - The Complete Series 1-8 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
All eight series of the comedy drama series set in a Donegal town in the 1950s and '60s.
Ireland in the '50s, and the days of mass tourism and indoor plumbing have not yet come to rural Co. Donegal. But in the small, sleepy town of Ballylenon, change is coming,...
BBC Comedy Festival Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
Expect a summer festival with a difference as some of the nation's favourite comics turn curators and host a virtual festival featuring their favourite performers from the worlds of comedy, literature and spoken word.
They'll be in control of everything (even the weather) as we're taken along for the ride...
Billy Connolly - Tall Tales And Wee Stories Paperback
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
"Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on..."
In December 2018,...
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais - More Than Likely: A Memoir Paperback
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are the creators of some of British television's most beloved comedies. Essex-born Clement teamed up with Geordie insurance salesman La Frenais in the early 1960s and scripted a series about two young pals from Newcastle, The Likely Lads, which became one of BBC Two's...
Not In Front Of The Children - The Complete BBC Radio Series Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
Wendy Craig stars in the complete Series 1 and 2 of the popular 1960s sitcom, as heard on BBC radio, adapted from the hit television comedy of the same name.
With three young kids and a headstrong husband, frazzled housewife Jennifer Corner has her hands full. Everyday life can be...
Rent - The Complete Series 1-4 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
All four series of the award-winning house-share comedy starring Barbara Flynn and Patrick Barlow.
Maria and Richard Reynolds are happily married, but broke. With debts piling up and their house falling down, there's only one thing for it: they have to start taking in lodgers. Their new housemates are two...
Richard Ayoade - Ayoade On Top Paperback
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
In Ayoade On Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada...
The Consultants - The Complete Series 1-4 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
All four series of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 sketch show.
Welcome to The Consultants' lifestyle presentation conference and comedy show - listen and learn as they present their 1000-point plan of action, complete with shouting, songs and plenty of silliness.
In these 21 episodes, the team ponder how to...
Whose Line Is It Anyway? - The Complete BBC Radio Series Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th September 2020
The hit improvisation radio show that spawned the TV phenomenon.
Regular team captains Stephen Fry and John Sessions are joined by Lenny Henry, Dawn French, Hugh Laurie, Enn Reitel, Jimmy Mulville, Nonny Williams, Griff Rhys Jones, Kate Robbins, John Bird, Rory Bremner and Jon Glover, as they battle their way...
Horrible Histories - Series Eight DVD
Release date: Monday 14th September 2020
It's Series 8 of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Horrible Histories!
Join us for an irreverent look at some of history's most amazing people and happenings, including: the Victorians inventing film (Queen Victoria was a HUGE fan!), some of history's greatest fashion faux pas and fiercest females, as well as...
Not Now Comrade Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 14th September 2020
An uproarious British farce featuring a classic line-up of comedy veterans (including Leslie Phillips, Carol Hawkins, Roy Kinnear, June Whitfield, Ian Lavender, Windsor Davies and Don Estelle), Not Now, Comrade is packed to the brim with mistaken identities, assumed names, extreme confusion, double-takes and triple entendres!
It is presented here...
Sol Bernstein - An Old Jew Tells Old Jewish Jokes Audio
Release date: Monday 14th September 2020
Stand-up comedy from the character Sol Bernstein.
Frank Skinner - How To Enjoy Poetry Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 10th September 2020
"Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'. I referred them to Doctor...
Love Sarah DVD
Release date: Monday 7th September 2020
Starring Celia Imrie, Shannon Tarbet, Shelley Conn, Rupert Penry Jones and Bill Paterson. With a special appearance by Candice Brown.
Determined to fulfil her late mother's dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, 19-year-old Clarissa enlists the help of her mother's best friend Isabella and her eccentric estranged...
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy - Series 1 & 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 7th September 2020
Along with animator/director Nigel Coan (Mighty Boosh, Bunny And The Bull), Fielding has created a joyful, charming explosion of a show in the tradition of Spike Milligan and Kenny Everett.
A mash-up of sketch comedy and psychedelic sitcom featuring wild characters such as the Ghost of Flea, Dondylion and Fantasy...
Songbird DVD
Release date: Monday 7th September 2020
A rock musician drunkenly enrols into college after breaking up with her boyfriend as her band falls apart. Hoping to give the youngsters a run for their money, she is shocked to discover that no one knows who she is and could care less about her rock star past. A...
Boycie In Belgrade Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Friday 4th September 2020
Join John Challis on his journey to the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, where he aims to uncover why Only Fools And Horses is so popular in the small Balkan nation.
Apparently it's the most watched show in Serbia, but why? Boycie is received in Serbia as almost a national hero,...
Adam Buxton - Ramble Book Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
The long-awaited, rambling, tender, and very funny memoir from Adam Buxton.
Ramble
/ˈramb(ə)l/
Verb
1. walk for pleasure in the countryside.
'Dr Buckles and Rosie the dog love rambling in the countryside.'
2. talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way.
'Adam rambles on about lots of consequential, compelling...
Alan Davies - Just Ignore Him Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain.
In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsight,...
Andy Hamilton - Longhand Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Malcolm George Galbraith is a large, somewhat clumsy, Scotsman. He's being forced to leave the woman he loves behind and needs to explain why.
So he leaves her a handwritten note on the kitchen table (well, more a 300-page letter than a note). In it, Malcolm decides to start from...
Chris & Rosie Ramsey - Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
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...
David Mitchell - Dishonesty Is The Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules To Live By Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
David Mitchell's best-selling Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse, published back in 2014, must really have made people think - because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from digging up Richard III to breaking up fatbergs, from Big Society to food banks, from twerking...
Ellie Taylor's Safe Space Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Comedian Ellie Taylor has some opinions she'd like to get off her chest. In her brand new series, she discusses her views through stand-up, sketches and with help from the studio audience and her side-kick, Robin Morgan.
First, Ellie looks at parenting and considers: has having kids ruined her life?...
From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Broadcaster, writer, philanthroper and one of the first public figures to suggest high-visibility clothing for people manning temporary car parks, the public Alan Partridge is a cherished institution.
But what of the unseen Alan?
For the first time, this famously private man welcomes us into his home and audibly deshrouds...
James Acaster - Perfect Sound Whatever Paperback
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
The hilarious and heartwarming new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author, undercover cop, receiver of cabbages.
January, 2017.
James Acaster wakes hungover and alone in New York, his girlfriend having just left him. Thinking this is his rock bottom, little does James know that by the end of the...
John Cleese - Creativity: A Short And Cheerful Guide Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in this short, immensely practical and often very amusing guide he shows it's a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer, he shares his...
Laura Lexx - Klopp Actually Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
A hilarious diary of married life with the sensible, no-nonsense man of all our dreams: Jürgen Klopp, from critically-acclaimed comedian and Twitter sensation Laura Lexx.
Inspired by the viral tweet: 'If I ever met Jürgen Klopp I'd say "omg if we have a baby we should call it Klipp" just...
Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club Audiobook, CD, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
The first book in a gripping new series, The Thursday Murder Club, by TV presenter and producer Richard Osman.
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder...
Ruth Jones - Us Three Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best friends since primary school when they swore an oath on a Curly Wurly wrapper that they would always be there for each other, come what may.
After the trip of a lifetime, the three girls are closer than ever. But an unexpected turn of...
The Special Relationship Audio Download
Release date: Monday 31st August 2020
The Special Relationship is a cross-continental sitcom, in which two idiot British comedians decide to 'crack America'. Unfortunately, they have very little idea about how to go about it - or even, when pushed, what it means. But that does nothing to dent their enthusiasm....
Featuring a host of comedy...
Lee Mack - Mack The Life: The Autobiography Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 27th August 2020
Have you ever wondered where comedians come from? Why is it that one person is a funny bloke down the pub while another actually makes a living by standing up in front of an audience telling jokes? And where does all that material come from? Well, young Lee McKillop used...
Green Wing - The Complete First And Second Series Plus Feature Length Special DVD
Release date: Monday 24th August 2020
The complete first and second series plus feature length special of the award-winning Channel 4 comedy. Green Wing is the BAFTA award-winning series that is part surreal soap, part innovative comedy drama--and largely set, despite a bizarre lack of medical content, in a hospital.
Devised and produced by Victoria Pile,...
Alison And Maud - The Complete Series 1 And 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 20th August 2020
Sisters Alison and Maud are joint landladies of the Abbeyfield Guest House, dispensing hospitality to a variety of demanding clients while also looking after their irascible, bedridden father downstairs in the granny flat. Dreamy ornithologist Alison has just moved back from Bloomsbury, while Maud ran a 3, 000-acre farm in...
An Actor's Life For Me - The Complete Series 1-3 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 20th August 2020
All 19 episodes of the BBC radio comedy about an aspiring actor with dreams of stardom.
Young actor Robert Wilson is desperately seeking work - and he's prepared to do almost anything for his big break. He's convinced that he's only one audition away from fame and fortune: but while...
Four Joneses And A Jenkins - The Complete BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 20th August 2020
An everyday story of sheep, sin and scholarship under the shadow of the Long Mynd.
Written by Sue Limb (Gloomsbury, Skeletons In The Cupboard), this pastoral sitcom follows six months in the life of the Jones family, who live on a small farm in rural Wales.
We join them in...
Little Lifetimes - Series 1-6 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 20th August 2020
A sparkling collection of comic monologues by Jenny Eclair, about women facing pivotal moments in their lives.
In these funny, poignant short stories, voiced by some of Britain's finest actors, we are introduced to 29 very different women as they open their hearts and share their secrets.
Here are tales...
Lunch - The Complete Series 1-5 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 20th August 2020
Stephen Mangan and Claire Skinner star in all five series of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy drama.
Bill works as an economist in a right-wing institute giving succour to bankers and businessmen. Bella is a confirmed socialist who teaches yoga and waters the plants in Canary Wharf. Years ago...
The Change Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 20th August 2020
All three series of the BBC radio comedy about a troubled wife and a transvestite husband.
Now that their children have left home, George and Carol finally have time for themselves again. Carol's looking forward to it being just the two of them. George, however, thinks the time is right...
The Secret World Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 20th August 2020
All four series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy impressions show following the imagined private lives of the rich and powerful.
The Secret World is an impressions show with a difference - it shines a light on the imaginary alternative lives of famous folk. Each episode takes place over one...
The Sit Crom Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 20th August 2020
Autumn, 1646. The English Civil War is raging, and there's trouble ahead for Sir John and Lady Anne Firebasket. There's a Roundhead platoon camping out in the barn, a perplexed priest hiding behind the panelling and, unbeknown to the Firebaskets, their scullery maid Mercy is actually a disguised aristocrat (and...
Who Done It? Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 17th August 2020
Saucy comedy superstar Benny Hill makes his screen-starring debut in one of the last Ealing comedies ever made under the studios' original management. Co-starring Belinda Lee as a glamorous showgirl and David Kossoff as a dastardly foreign spy - and directed by BAFTA award-winning Basil Dearden - Who Done It?...
The Renown Comedy Collection - Volume Three DVD
Release date: Friday 14th August 2020
A collection of eleven comedy films, packed into 3 DVDs.
Come Back Peter (1952)
A charming comedy, directed by Charles Saunders and starring Patrick Holt, Charles Lamb, Peter Hammond, Humphrey Lestocq, Kathleen Boutall, Pamela Bygrave, Aud Johansen, Dorothy Primrose, Doris Groves and Joan Hickson. Chaos reigns when relatives come to stay...
Caimh McDonnell - Welcome To Nowhere Paperback
Release date: Thursday 13th August 2020
When a gambling debt puts him between a rock and a swim in the Hudson with concrete shoes, Smithy has no choice but to take the worst job imaginable. The gig - as prey in a leprechaun hunt for a bunch of Wall Street jerks - goes as badly as...
PJ Brownsword - Bluebottle Goes To War: Peter Sellers & The RAF Gang Shows Hardback
Release date: Thursday 13th August 2020
Peter Sellers was one of the biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s. His career began with characters such as Bluebottle on BBC radio's The Goon Show and he achieved global fame as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. What is less well known is that he served in...
Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Audiobook
Release date: Tuesday 11th August 2020
Upon publication, Don't Panic quickly established itself as the definitive companion to Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
This edition comes up-to-date, covering the movie, And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer and the build up to the 30th anniversary of the first novel. Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman...
Keep It Up Downstairs Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 10th August 2020
A classic Seventies "sex comedy", this bawdy British period romp lampoons classic television series Upstairs, Downstairs and sees a host of stars shedding their Edwardian costumes to save the family silver - including Diana Dors, sex superstar Mary Millington, Willie Rushton, Françoise Pascal, Aimi MacDonald and erstwhile Artful Dodger, Jack...
We Apologise For The Inconvenience CD, Paperback & Vinyl
Release date: Saturday 8th August 2020
Mark Griffiths's acclaimed stage play is now available as an audio drama.
We Apologise For The Inconvenience tells, in fictionalised form, the story of the time in 1984 when Douglas Adams was so far behind schedule writing the fourth novel in his Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy 'trilogy', [linksubtle=https://amzn.to/3adYF2k][i]So Long...
Edinburgh Unlocked Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 6th August 2020
An exclusive comedy festival in audiobook format that showcases some of the most exciting comedians working today, including household names such as Ivo Graham, Jessie Cave, Sofie Hagen, and Dane Baptiste through to emerging talent such as Glamrou, Mo Omar, and Shelf, as well as the winner of the 2019...
Jack Rooke - Cheer The F**K Up: How To Save Your Best Friend Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 6th August 2020
This book will definitely make you laugh and might just make you cry, but it could also help save a life.
Cheer The F**K Up is a bold, brilliant and very personal account of a young comedian's experiences with mental health. An ode to the importance of friendship, Jack Rooke...
Liam Williams - Homes And Experiences Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 6th August 2020
Mark is going on the trip of a lifetime: a summer touring Europe in the pay of the travel company he works for.
For his plus one, he turns to his idolised cousin, Paris. Everything Mark's not, Paris is a man of the world with a thirst for adventure -...