New Releases
Higher - The Complete Series 1-4 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 25th October 2018
A BBC comedy drama set in the world of a 'pile 'em high university'.
Karen Poynter is the new head of the Geography Department - renamed Geographical Tourism - at Hayborough University, which is definitely not part of the elite Russell Group of top universities. Ranked 132nd in the UK...
It Is Rocket Science - The Complete Series 1-3 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 25th October 2018
Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane star in this funny, offbeat but factual expedition through the universe, boldly going where no Radio 4 comedy show has gone before.
This 'shamelessly nerdy...deeply silly' (Radio Times) space extravaganza features fewer close-ups of Professor Brian Cox looking cool in front of a...
Jack & Millie - Complete Series 1 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 25th October 2018
This new comedy show, written by Jeremy Front (writer of the Charles Paris mysteries for Radio 4) and starring Jeremy Front and Rebecca Front as Jack & Millie Lemman - an older couple who are fully engaged with contemporary life whilst being at war with the absurdities of the modern...
Arthur Bostrom - Good Moaning France!: Officer Crabtree's Fronch Phrose Berk Paperback & eBook
Release date: Wednesday 24th October 2018
Now you can 'spook Fronch' like the policeman in 'Allo 'Allo!. Based on a favourite character from the BBC TV sitcom, in this delightful book Officer Crabtree's masterly grasp of Fronch falls under the spotlight as never before. From 'Ploose may I hov a kippy of the dooly nosepooper?' to...
Katharine Turner & Barry Waldo - Anna And The Apocalypse Paperback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Novel inspired by the musical feature film, Anna And The Apocalypse.
School's out for the end of the world.
Anna And The Apocalypse is a horror comedy about a teenager who faces down a zombie apocalypse with a little help from her friends.
Anna Shepherd is a straight-A student with...
No Offence - Series One, Two & Three DVD
Release date: Monday 22nd October 2018
All 21 episodes from the first three series of Channel 4's hit crime comedy-drama.
No Offence - Series Three DVD
Release date: Monday 22nd October 2018
No Offence returns for a third series, with D.I. Viv Deering and her team from Friday Street station once more clashing with the underworld and their overlords alike.
This third series kicks off with the attempted assassination of a local politician by a new Far Right group an attack which...
The Bromley Boys DVD
Release date: Monday 22nd October 2018
In 1969, with England preparing for the defence of their World Cup crown and George Best delighting crowds with his virtuoso skills at Old Trafford, 15 year old David Roberts fell in love...head over heels in love... with his local non-league club Bromley FC.
Finding it hard to fit in...
This Country - Series One & Two DVD
Release date: Monday 22nd October 2018
Feckless cousins Kerry and Lee 'Kurtan' Mucklowe live in a picturesque, but depressingly dull, village in the Cotswolds. As they fritter away their days in the most pointless ways possible, they push their friendship to breaking point by constantly winding each other up. But, whether suffering the indignity of Kerry's...
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Audio Download
Release date: Friday 19th October 2018
As co-founder of Fuck Buttons, the highly-influential noise-electronic duo, Andrew Hung has toured extensively with headline shows at the Kentish Town Forum, Glastonbury and Greenman Festivals, been featured on the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and all three of their albums have featured as Best New Music on Pitchfork Media.
His...
2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks Hardback
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
A bumper final edition of the most surprising, amazing, and hilarious facts on the planet from the clever-clogs at QI.
Agendum - Series 1 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
A current affairs parody and stupidly feasible visit to the 24-hour Hall of Opinion Mirrors. Because there are two stories to every story.
Created by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, the masterminds behind Philomena Cunk and the adult spoof Ladybird books, the show was piloted in September 2017 and sent...
Billy Connolly - Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures In A Wee Country Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
Billy Connolly may be a citizen of the world, but in his heart he's never been far from his homeland. Coming Home is Billy's unique and intimate portrait of his native Scotland, a love letter to the places and people that made him.
It's an adventure inspired by a single...
Elis James & John Robins - The Holy Vible Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
Comedians Elis James and John Robins have captured the hearts and minds of a generation, and it's time those hearts and minds had a book.
The Holy Vible is a complete guide to the hilariously niche and wonderfully obscure world of commercial digital indie radio's most-unproducible hammer legends: Elis and...
Jo Brand - Born Lippy: How To Do Female Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
When Jo Brand hosted Have I Got News For You late in 2017, her calm explanation of the effects of sexism on women to the male panellists became into a viral phenomenon.
There has been a long tradition of books over hundreds of years where a father shares his wisdom...
Joel Dommett - It's Not Me, It's Them: Confessions of a hopeless modern romantic Paperback
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
As a 17-year-old virgin working . . . for Virgin, Joel Dommett has grand ambitions. Firstly, he is going to swap suburbia for the bright lights of Showbiz. Secondly, he is going to find 'the one' - and sets himself the very achievable target of finding her in the first...
Michael Whitehall - Backing Into The Spotlight Paperback
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
"Standing in front of a full-length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection.
'Michael, what the f*** do you think you're doing?'"
Theatrical agent Michael Whitehall spent a career pushing others into...
Seaside Town - Series 1 DVD & Download
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
US Soccer star Keeley Jones visits the UK to find out a bit more about one of the oldest soccer teams in the world. When she gets there she finds a club in turmoil and a manager on the brink. In 2018 the people of a coastal town, Newhaven, came...
Sue Perkins - East of Croydon Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from the vast delta in Vietnam to the remote and snowy peaks of Tibet.
Up until that point, the farthest East I'd been was Torremolinos, in the Costa Del Sol.
Here's...
The Audiobook Of The Year 2018 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
Random House presents The Audiobook of the Year (2018), written and read by the team behind hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish: James Harkin, Jane Hill, Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski.
Think you know what happened in 2018? Think again.
Following hot on the heels...
The Book Of The Year 2018 Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
Compiled and written by the creators of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, all of whom are researchers for QI, The Book Of The Year 2018 will bravely delve behind the headlines to sniff out the best and most bizarre facts of the last twelve...
Upstart Crow - The Scripts Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 18th October 2018
It's the 1590s. William Shakespeare - brought to life on screen by the inimitable David Mitchell - is at the start of his career. But no one is taking him seriously. In London, he is mercilessly mocked by his rivals and at home in Stratford he is belittled by his...
BBC Comedy Classics Triple Pack DVD
Release date: Monday 15th October 2018
Introducing three of the UK's greatest ever comedy series. Filled with the cream of British comedy actors and superbly written and directed, each of these became a national institution and continues to find new generations of fans.
Dad's Army - Complete Series 1 Plus The Lost Episodes Of Series 2
All...
Fleabag - Series 1 Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 15th October 2018
A confession of the modern woman. Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman and Bill Paterson, Fleabag is a poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman trying to make sense of the world.
As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up...
John Cleese - Professor At Large: The Cornell Years eBook
Release date: Monday 15th October 2018
And now for something completely different. Professor At Large features beloved English comedian and actor John Cleese in the role of ivy league professor at Cornell University. His almost twenty years as professor-at-large has led to many talks, essays, and lectures on campus.
Since 1999, Cleese has provided Cornell students...
The Detectives - The Complete Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 15th October 2018
Accidentally promoted far beyond their level of competence, Detective Constables Bob Louis and David Briggs stumble from crime to crime relying on a unique blend of intuition, hunches and inspired guesses... all of them hopelessly wrong. Incompetent, inept and usually in trouble, these bungling bobbies seem more likely to catch...
Waiting For God - The Complete Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 15th October 2018
At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort...but not if Tom (Graham Crowden) and Diana (Stephanie Cole) have anything to do with it!
Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food...
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Secondary Phase Vinyl
Release date: Friday 12th October 2018
Follow Zaphod Beeblebrox as he journeys into a totally weird new dimension, and intrepid Earthman Arthur Dent as he tries to escape the Prehistoric era with his friend Ford Prefect. Plug into a séance between Zaphod and his great-grandfather, and join Arthur as he meets the Bird People of Brontitall...
Bernard Cribbins - Bernard Who?: 75 Years Of Doing Just About Everything Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 11th October 2018
Bernard Cribbins's life has been an eventful one. In 1943, he left school aged fourteen and joined Oldham Repertory Company where he earned fifteen bob for a seventy-hour week. After being called up for National Service in 1946 he became a paratrooper and spent several months in Palestine being shot...
How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 1-10 Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 11th October 2018
Psychotherapist Martha is reasonably compassionate, but deep down she's losing patience. It seems all her clients want to be something they are not, and it's driving them (and her) out of their minds.
There's Richard Fallon MP, who's convinced that promotion to the front bench is being denied him because...
The Jinsy Boys - Tvignest CD & Download
Release date: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Chris Bran & Justin Chubb (aka The Jinsy Boys) venture back to the outskirts of the distant isle with their long-awaited album, Tvignest, which draws inspiration from the tune-well of ancient Jinsy folk-strumming and gullet-warbling. Recorded over a three cycle period using the latest both-ear technology, Tvignest takes us on...
Benidorm - Complete Boxset DVD
Release date: Monday 8th October 2018
Welcome to Benidorm!
This all-inclusive package features 10 glorious seasons at The Solana Hotel, bringing you a laugh-out-loud mix of hilarious holiday makers and hapless holiday staff.
Benidorm is Britain's favourite holiday resort and it's certainly been a British comedy phenomenon for over a decade, winning countless awards and attracting...
Mr White Goes To Westminster DVD
Release date: Monday 8th October 2018
Bill Paterson stars as a journalist who quits his job for a life in politics. This feature-length comedy drama is based on former BBC correspondent Martin Bell's election to Parliament on an anti-sleaze ticket, and was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1997.
Ben White (Paterson) is so fed up...
The Gravy Train DVD
Release date: Monday 8th October 2018
A biting satire about bribery and corruption in the European Union.
Malcolm Bradbury's delicious four-part comedy, first shown on Channel 4 in 1990, sees idealistic young Eurocrat Hans Joachim Dorfmann (Cristoph Waltz) get a rude awakening when he takes up his new position in Brussels.
Reporting to cynical, self-seeking British...
The Gravy Train Goes East DVD
Release date: Monday 8th October 2018
A second, post-glasnost slice of Malcolm Bradbury's The Gravy Train, the breezy satire about sleazy goings-on at the heart of Europe.
When the newly independent, freshly post-communist Eastern European enclave of Slaka appoints romantic novelist Katya Princip (Francesca Annis) as president, she pledges to push for entry to the European...
Upstart Crow - Series 3 DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 8th October 2018
Plays, pies and Tudor plots abound in Ben Elton's critically acclaimed comedy about William Shakespeare.
With a family in Stratford and his theatre company in London, the Bard is burning the candle at both ends. His teenage daughter Sue is as stroppy as ever, best mate Kit Marlowe is in...
Still Open All Hours - Series Five Download
Release date: Sunday 7th October 2018
The complete fifth series of the popular Sunday-evening sitcom, starring Sir David Jason as shopkeeper Granville Arkwright.
Granville still has his sights set on romance with Mavis, and Madge is giving Gastric more attention these days, but that could be because she's impressed with his invention skills.
The Black Widow...
Matt Berry - Television Themes CD & Vinyl
Release date: Friday 5th October 2018
From actor, comedian and musician Matt Berry comes this collection of 14 classic British television theme tunes from the 1970s and 1980s, remixed in his own jazz style.
Amongst the tracks are the following iconic comedy themes:
Are You Being Served?
The Good Life
Blankety Blank
The Liver Birds
Sorry!
Others include Doctor Who and...
Dead Ringers - Series 18 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
The complete Series 18 of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 impressions show - plus special episode An Alien Has Landed.
Dead Ringers is back with more topical comedy, political vituperation, media mauling and celebrity savaging from Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, Debra Stephenson, Duncan Wisbey and Josh Berry.
In...
Hancock's Half Hour Collectibles - Volume Three Audiobook & CD
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
This third treasury of rare archive material presents another four newly restored radio episodes of Hancock's Half Hour: The 13th Of The Series (1957), The Male Suffragettes (1958), The Sleepless Night (1958) and The Last Bus Home (1959).
Starring once again alongside Tony Hancock are Sid James, Bill Kerr, Hattie...
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
12 tracks by Clint Mansell from the British comedy film.
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - A Third Treasury Audiobook & CD
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
A sparkling collection of specials and spin-offs from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy show, plus two tributes to the legendary Humphrey Lyttelton.
This third and final Clue treasury features a panoply of specials based around the perennial 'antidote to panel games'. In the mix are I'm Sorry I Haven't...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes Paperback
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times in a row and has appeared on Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo, Russell Howard's Stand Up Central.
Unfortunately for James, fame and critical acclaim haven't prevented him from ending up in a breathtaking amount of farcical...
Joe Lycett's Obsessions Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
Joe Lycett explores the nation's weird and wonderful obsessions by getting to know a selection of famous and not so famous guests.
Hear Katherine Ryan share her love of the Kardashians, Greg James introduce Joe to the world of cricket, and Janice Connolly share her collection of de-cluttering books. Can...
Richard Herring - Emergency Questions: 1001 conversation-savers for any situation Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
If you had to wear somebody's guts for garters - if you had to - who would you disembowel in order to facilitate your socks staying up?
What do you consider your median achievement?
Would you rather have pubic hair made of unremovable barbed wire or to be attacked by...
Robin Ince - I'm A Joke And So Are You Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
Robin Ince has a good life. As a successful comedian, presenter, and writer, he's got a job that you are probably jealous of. So, why did he find himself stuck on a train platform in rural Northumberland, swearing maniacally, punching his own leg, vowing never to do stand-up again? Was...
Romesh Ranganathan - Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs Of A Distinctly Average Human Being Audiobook, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 4th October 2018
At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday camp talent competition, smashing the other competitor, a young girl playing the kazoo.
The gig went so well that Romesh retired his comic genius for twenty-two years, hiding behind the guise of a...
Eric Idle - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life: A Sortabiography Audiobook, CD, Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candour.
We know him best for his unforgettable roles in Monty Python - from the Flying Circus to The Meaning Of Life. Now, Eric Idle reflects...
Martin Waddell - Otley Complete eBook
Release date: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
All four of Martin Waddell's complete Otley novels: Otley, Otley Pursued, Otley Victorious and Otley Forever.
It starts as it always does for Gerald Otley, a petty theft gone wrong. But when the bodies of associates (Otley doesn't really have friends) start turning up dead, he suddenly finds himself caught...
British Film Comedy: The 50s DVD
Release date: Monday 1st October 2018
Happy Is The Bride
David proposes to Janet in the middle of a cricket match, a prospect less-than-enthusiastically received by Janet's prosperous father and the two lovebirds find romance being replaced by a regiment of interfering relatives!
Starring Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Cecil Parker, Terry-Thomas and Joyce Grenfell.
1957 | 1.66:1 |...