Sarah Millican makes an album with David Cameron and Danny Dyer | A tight 5: April 9

Sarah Millican makes an album with David Cameron and Danny Dyer

A tight 5: April 9

SARAH MILLICAN is making an album with David Cameron and Danny Dyer. The three are among those contributing to a collection of spoken word and music marking moments from the First World War. On the release, entitled Forever, Millican reads Amy Lowell's sonnet From One Who Stays, the Prime Minister has recorded The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, while Dyer reads In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh. The album is out on July 14. Preorder.

OMID DJALILI has released his World Cup song England's Going Out (To Do It Again) on Soundcloud today. He said: 'It's a catchy tune and I hope it will be fun,' he said. 'Maybe people will like it musically and maybe it's something to get you fired up and makes you believe.'

AL MURRAY has announced a new tour, spanning most of September, October and November. The run of dates, entitled One Man, One Guvnor, starts in Folkestone on September 3 and culminates with three nights at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank at the end of November. Schedule

A NEW improv show is heading to American TV. Riot launches on the Fox network on May 13, with a group of regular players participating in spontaneous challenges along with guest stars including Steve Carell, Cheryl Hines, Jason Alexander, D.L. Hughley, Tom Green, Andy Dick and Rob Delaney. The show, which will be hosted by Australian comic Rove McManus, will hope to emulate the success of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, recently revived by The CW network, which has run for 235 episodes.

JOSIE LONG has created an interactive comic to accompany this week's episode of Short Cuts, the Radio 4 series of short documentaries she presents. Read it here

Published: 9 Apr 2014

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