Satellite images reveal drunk father stockpiling fireworks
02/07/2025 … Satellite images reveal a worrying stockpile of explosives being assembled, despite heavy US sanctions.
2025 Archives
Wed 02 July 2025
The Edinburgh Fringe gig even the performer won't be at...
Comedian celebrates his absence from the festival with a 'show'
02/07/2025 … It’s not unheard-of to have no one in the audience for an Edinburgh Fringe performance – but one show at next month’s festival will have no…
Tue 01 July 2025
Alan Partridge at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
To launch the new series of his podcast From The Oasthouse
01/07/2025 … Here’s Alan Partridge walking around the garden created in his honour at the Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.
Broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake turns to stand-up
Radio host to make his comedy debut
01/07/2025 … Broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake is turning his hand to stand-up for the first time.
Two podcast events return
First announcements for Cheerful Earful and London Podcast Festival
01/07/2025 … The Cheerful Earful comedy podcast festival and the London Podcast Festival have both confirmed their returns this autumn.
© BBC Where does Kurtan take Kerry for her birthday in This Country?
01/07/2025 … It's our question-writer Hayden Parker's 50th birthday this week, so in a rare burst of self-indulgence this week's multiple-choice trivia quiz…
Happy 100th birthday, Peter Sellers!
Blu-Ray releases and BFI season to mark comic's anniversary
01/07/2025 … Two classic Peter Sellers comedies are to be released on Blu-Ray to mark what would have been his 100th birthday on September, 8.
For sale: One dead parrot
Monty Python props go under the hammer
01/07/2025 … Dozens of props from Monty Python’s final live shows are being auctioned.