Desiree Burch: The Golden Wrath
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … At a fresh-faced and motor-mouthed 46, Desiree Burch leverages both the fire of youth and the wisdom of age in her new show The Golden Wrath, looking at the physiological…
Sat 09 August 2025
How Oxbridge dominates Taskmaster
...and what that says about the state of comedy when times are tough
09/08/2025 … In times of recession, comedy becomes more conservative, argues Edinburgh Fringe comedian and Chortle Hotshot Jessie Nixon.
Ed Night: Your Old Mucker
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … Ed Night is back to a decent work rate again, having taken a five-year gap before his 2024 Fringe show, The Plunge.
Harry Hill got alternative underground comedy on primetime ITV
Alex Kitson picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
09/08/2025 … Picking six comedy favourites was super tricky.
Mark Steel to front McLibel podcast
BBC series about the ongest-running case in English legal history.
09/08/2025 … Mark Steel is fronting a new BBC Sounds podcast about the ‘McLibel’ trial, the longest-running case in English legal history.
Tape Face: 20
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … One of the bigger gets for the Fringe this year was the return of Sam Wills – aka The Boy With Tape On His Face, aka TapeFace – by some metrics probably…
Katie Pritchard: Girl Bond
09/08/2025 … James Bond is to be played by a woman for the first time – and here’s the theme tune.
© BBC Radio 4 Hardeep Singh Kohli given court date
Comic denies six sex-related charges
09/08/2025 … Hardeep Singh Kohli has appeared in court charged with sex-related offences.