New Releases
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...
Beaconsfield Studios Collection DVD
Release date: Monday 9th August 2021
Beaconsfield Studios opened in 1922, producing films and TV shows until the 1960s. Run by producer George Clark, with actor/director Guy Newall, the site was chosen to escape the London smog yet remain within easy reach of the city, with country locations for outdoor filming. During World War II, the...
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'...
Rob Deering - Running Tracks Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th August 2021
Rob Deering has been listening to music his whole life, but it was only in his mid-thirties that - much to his surprise - he found himself falling in love with the hugely popular, nearly perfect, sometimes preposterous activity of running.
In this vividly conjured collection, Rob shares stories of...
Rosie Jones - The Amazing Edie Eckhart Audiobook, Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 5th August 2021
"Hello! My name is Edie Eckhart and I'm eleven years old. I'm a little bit different. I have a disability called cerebral palsy, so I talk slowly and fall over a lot. It's never really bothered me because I've never known anything else."
Edie Eckhart is Excited with a capital...
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...
John Osborne - A Supermarket Love Story
Release date: Sunday 1st August 2021
A new book coming this summer.
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.
Robert Wringham - Stern Plastic Owl
Release date: Sunday 1st August 2021
A collection of short essays and flash fiction compiled by Robert Wringham.
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...
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled - The Extended Podcast Audiobook
Release date: Tuesday 27th July 2021
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled - The Extended Podcast contains loads of exclusive extra stories and banter that couldn't be broadcast on the smash hit TV show.
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...
William Shakespeare: 3 Comedies DVD
Release date: Friday 23rd July 2021
Royal Shakespeare Company live stage productions of three of William Shakespeare's most popular comedies:
The Merry Wives Of Windsor
Twelfth Night
The Taming Of The Shrew
The casts include Kara Tointon, Adrian Edmondson, Rebecca Lacey and David Troughton.
Filmed live on stage at the company's iconic Stratford-upon-Avon theatre.
Isy Suttie - Jane Is Trying Paperback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Jane is bright, funny and very anxious. Jane is in her late thirties but living with her parents. Jane is back in the sticks - having left London after a traumatic breakup with a boyfriend, prompted by their struggles to conceive and his infidelity. Jane is working part-time in an...
North East Of Eden Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 22nd July 2021
The BBC radio sitcom about a metropolitan GP who quits the city for a life in Paradise.
When Marcia Hulme inherits her uncle's medical practice, she decamps from London to a remote island off the coast of Northumbria. There's not a lot to do in Paradise, other than fish or...
Phil Wang - They Come Over Here Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Comedian Phil Wang takes us through a funny and incisive look at race and belonging.
Inspired by his forthcoming book Sidesplitter, Phil and a panel of guests explore the subjects of food, empire, music, nature, assimilation and power, and what they mean in today's multicultural society.
Giddy Stratospheres Download
Release date: Monday 19th July 2021
Giddy Stratospheres follows Daniel and Lara, indie-kid soul mates in the centre of the storm of guitars and broken glass that was the 00s indie music scene.
Beautiful, mischievous, dishevelled, and on a quest for the ultimate euphoria and excitement that comes with dancing and thrashing on the front row...
Ellie Taylor - My Child And Other Mistakes Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 15th July 2021
My Child And Other Mistakes is the honest lowdown on motherhood and all its grisly delights, asking the questions no one wants to admit to asking themselves - do I want a child? Do I have a favourite? Do I wish I hadn't had one and spent the money on...
Roger Lewis - Growing Up With Comedians Hardback & eBook
Release date: Tuesday 13th July 2021
A collection of portraits of some of the finest comedians of our time. From the author of the acclaimed The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, as made into an award-winning film by HBO, and the dark and scabrous Seasonal Suicide Notes, which everybody loves, here at last comes the...
Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb 4K Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 12th July 2021
The lauded, satirical cinematic landmark is available in UHD (4K) for the very first time.
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture (1964), Stanley Kubrick's black comedy about a group of paranoia-inspired, war-happy generals who manage to initiate an "accidental" nuclear apocalypse, is horribly frightening, delightfully funny and surprisingly...
Snatch - 20th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 12th July 2021
More than 20 years since its release, Guy Ritchie's crime caper with a comic twist debuts on 4K UHD Blu-ray.
Guy Ritchie, writer/director of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, delivers another awe-inspiring directorial masterpiece, SNATCH - an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong, a colourful...
Stanley Holloway DVD
Release date: Monday 12th July 2021
Born in London in 1890 Stanley Holloway was one of Britain's finest comedy actors. It was in the 1950s that Holloway produced arguably his finest work on the big screen and this box set includes four of his finest films.
The Happy Family (1952)
Holloway stars alongside George Cole, Kathleen Harrison...
Alfie Moore: It's A Fair Cop - Series 4 - 6 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 8th July 2021
Ever wondered what sort of a police officer you might make?
In Series 4-6, Alfie dives into deeper topics than before. How many times were you filmed without your knowledge today? What is the legacy of ASBOs? Alfie takes the audience with him as he navigates the twisted world of...
Gina Yashere - Cack-Handed: A Memoir Audiobook & Hardback
Release date: Thursday 8th July 2021
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir.
According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill the dreams of her...
Life In London Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 8th July 2021
Pierce Egan's renowned 19th-Century comic novel adapted by Dan Tetsell is a rollicking real tour of the sprawling post-Regency Metropolis in the years before the Victorians turned up and made everything boring.
Comedy drama showing the 'fast life' of Regency London, starring Mark Gatiss, Greg Wise and James Bachman, and...
Louis Barfe - Sunshine And Laughter: The Story Of Morecambe & Wise Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 8th July 2021
The unique story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise - British television's most iconic double act.
British television has hosted some celebrated double acts over the years - from the Two Ronnies to Reeves & Mortimer, from French & Saunders to Fry & Laurie and from Mitchell & Webb to...
The Blandings Collection: P.G. Wodehouse Volume 2 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 8th July 2021
Audible Studios presents the second volume of the best-selling PG Wodehouse collection. In this volume, Stephen Fry lends his voice to the Blandings stories. This collection contains:
Summer Lightning
Heavy Weather
Blandings Castle And Elsewhere
Lord Emsworth And Others
Uncle Fred In The Spring Time
Futtocks End And Other Short Stories Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 5th July 2021
A notable presence in the British film industry for several decades and a key director of 1970s film comedies - including outings for Frankie Howerd, Alf Garnett and Danny La Rue - Bob Kellett also produced four of the funniest short films ever made for British cinema.
Starring Ronnie Barker,...
Just Like A Woman Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 5th July 2021
Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews star as a bickering couple going through an acrimonious separation in this swinging, offbeat comedy from producer Bob Kellett and idiosyncratic writer/director Robert Fuest. Also starring John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin, Peter Jones and Clive Dunn, Just Like A Woman is presented here as...
Rentadick Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 5th July 2021
Originally scripted by comedy legends John Cleese and Graham Chapman, this hilarious farce was the first of only two main features from cult director (and Oscar-winning editor) Jim Clark. Starring James Booth, Richard Briers and Richard Beckinsale as three hapless private investigators, Rentadick is featured here as a brand new...
The Pursuit Of Love Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 5th July 2021
1920s, Oxfordshire. On the brink of adulthood, Linda Radlett (Lily James) and her beloved cousin Fanny Logan (Emily Beecham) are stuck in the countryside, impatiently waiting for life to begin so they can escape the confines of Alconleigh.
Linda, who has lived her life under the terrifying regime of her...
Young Wives' Tale Blu-ray & DVD
Release date: Monday 5th July 2021
Joan Greenwood reprises her hit stage performance as a frustrated housewife in this film adaptation of a popular West End farce. Co-starring Nigel Patrick and Derek Farr - and showcasing a memorable early performance from Audrey Hepburn - Young Wives' Tale is featured here as a brand new high definition...
Flying The Flag - The Complete Series 1-4 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 1st July 2021
All four series of the Eastern bloc embassy sitcom starring Dinsdale Landen.
Set in a British embassy somewhere in Russia as the Cold War draws to a close, this entertaining sitcom follows Her Majesty's Ambassador Mr Mackenzie as he navigates the idiosyncrasies of life behind the Iron Curtain. Together with...
Ian Moore - Death And Croissants Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 1st July 2021
The first novel in the enthralling Follet Valley series, by TV/radio regular Ian Moore.
Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it.
One day, however, one...
Jessie Cave - Sunset Hardback & eBook
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
Sunset is bittersweet love story about putting yourself back together after the sky has fallen in.
Ruth and Hannah are sisters. They build each other up and tear each other down. Even as polar opposites they make each other laugh more than anyone else in the world. Ruth is forever...
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit Of Love Audiobook
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
One of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now major a BBC and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West.
'He was the great love of her life you know.'
'Oh, dulling, '...
The News Quiz - Vintage Treasures Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 24th June 2021
A brand new collection of previously unpublished episodes taken from the programme's first four decades.
The News Quiz began on Radio 4 in 1977 and continues to be hugely popular to this day. The first host was Barry Norman, and subsequently Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, Miles Jupp, Nish...
Inside No. 9 - Series Six DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 21st June 2021
Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith star in their award-winning anthology of twisted tales, where every story will either make you shake with fear or shriek with laughter. And usually both.
From seedy hotels to penthouse flats, from lip-readers to diamond thieves, and from the Last Night of the Proms to...
London Town DVD
Release date: Monday 21st June 2021
Starring comedy legend Sid Field, London Town is a fine nostalgic look at 1940s music hall entertainment. A superb supporting cast includes Kay Kendall, Petula Clark and Greta Gynt.
Jerry Sandford (Field) has been playing the provincial theatres most of his life. But, when he is offered a chance to...
Me Myself & Di DVD
Release date: Monday 21st June 2021
After winning the 'trip of a lifetime' to a caravan park in Rhyl, North Wales, unlucky in love Northerner, Janet, is ready for a holiday romance. Unfortunately, taking the advice of her best friend, Diana - that she should pretend to be the opposite of who she actually is in...
Georgia Pritchett - My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life Hardback
Release date: Thursday 17th June 2021
From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?), to embracing womanhood (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars), to becoming a...
The Now Show - Series 56 - 58 Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th June 2021
Three more series of the flagship topical comedy show presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
The Now Show is a much-loved stalwart of radio comedy. Featuring some of the best and brightest contemporary comedians, this award-winning show takes a satirical look at the news through a mix of stand-up,...
The Quanderhorn Collexion Audio Download
Release date: Thursday 17th June 2021
Meet the mercurial genius Professor Quanderhorn (James Fleet) - a maverick scientist with absolutely no moral compass. Join him and his rag-tag crew on their frontal-lobe-knotting escapades.
And what a crew they are: Q's part insect son, Troy, reputedly a 'major breakthrough in Artificial Stupidity' (Freddie Fox); eager young test...
Boycie In Belgrade DVD & Download
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
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,...
Dad's Army - The Movie: 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
The film spin-off from the much-loved TV comedy series starring Arthur Lowe as the commander of an incompetent Home Guard platoon in wartime Britain.
With the trusted comedy genius from the TV series shining through, Mainwaring and company save the day when a crew of a German aircraft take the...
Made In Italy DVD
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
Made In Italy is a heart-warming comedy, set in glorious Tuscany, about bohemian London artist Robert (Liam Neeson) who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Micheál Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife.
A successful and ambitious art gallery manager,...
This Time With Alan Partridge - Series 1 & 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
Includes Series 1 and 2 of BBC One's comedy series starring Oscar nominee and five-time BAFTA winner Steve Coogan.
Series 1
The comedy icon returns to mark the 25th anniversary of his BBC debut.
Due to the sudden illness of its regular host, BBC One show This Time welcomes Alan Partridge...
This Time With Alan Partridge - Series 2 DVD
Release date: Monday 14th June 2021
The iconic Alan Partridge returns to the big time with a second series of weeknight magazine show This Time. Starring Oscar nominee and five-time BAFTA winner Steve Coogan.
Alan's run as a primetime co-presenter at the BBC has been going surprisingly well - but all good things must come to...
The Slightly Saucy Box Set DVD
Release date: Friday 11th June 2021
This 2-disc box set is exclusive to Renown and features a selection of slightly saucy films and shorts starring much loved British actors including: Jon Pertwee, David Jason, Joanna Lumley, Reginald Beckwith, Kenneth Connor, Penny Brahms, Richard Wattis, Leon Greene, Hugh Lloyd, Sue Bond, Imogen Hassall, Tim Barrett, David Prowse,...