Film, radio & TV

Jennifer Saunders comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names. But its Jennifer herself who has a plac...

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Warm, humorous and uplifting, Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana's only female private detective agency, have become international bestsellers, sold over seven million copies, and bee...

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En av vår tids mest folkkära underhållare MAGNUS HÄRENSTAM var kanske mest känd som ena halvan av Magnus och Brasse och som en tredjedel av "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter", men hans karriär omfattade också samarbeten med större delen av den ...

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Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and is drawn ...

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As far back as he can remember James Corden has only ever wanted to be in one place: in front of you, doing something to make you laugh, cry, shout, or giggle uncontrollably. At the age of 4, he grandstanded throughout his baby sister's christenin...

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Winner of the 2018 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved-plaintive love poems, unbridled mu...

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Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate, runs away from his monotonous life to take up a teaching post on the small Greek island of Phraxos. There he meets the enigmatic figure of Maurice Conchis, and slowly gets drawn into a world full of strange...

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Rob Brydon - star of Gavin and Stacey, Steve Coogans partner in The Trip, and one of Britains favourite comedians - tells the funny and frank story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book. A multi-award-winning actor, writer,...

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A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the First to Fit the Sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legendThe original series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of t...

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Two classic tales from acclaimed British science fiction writer John Wyndham. In The Chrysalids, ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city - until he befriends Sophie, who ...

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Laugh out loud with this unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Michael McIntyres brilliantly funny and honest account of his life so far, Life and Laughing: My Story, read by the comedian himself. Michael McIntyre has become Britains bigge...

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På scen har vi sett honom som Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Tony Rickardsson och Carl Bildt. I tv som Weiron i ottan och Greger - den homosexuelle brandkårschefen. Privat har Sveriges roligaste man däremot alltid hållt en låg profil. Men inte den här gånge...

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'Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!' No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's husband was dead, brutally stabbed in the neck. The evidence against her is overwhelming, the case cut and dried. B...

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Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts''The pitch here at Lord's is blackened, lightly smoking down towards ...

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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the hugely successful The Fry Chronicles, brilliantly read by Stephen Fry himself. Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Frys autobiography of his early years, was published to rave revie...

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Left penniless by the death of his father, nineteen-year-old Nicholas Nickleby seeks help, along with his mother and sister, from Uncle Ralph Nickleby. The hard-hearted money lender takes an instant dislike to his nephew and gets rid of the boy by...

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A dynamic remastering of the second BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - 'Fit the Seventh' to 'Fit the Twelfth' - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend. The second original series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' has been remastered by ...

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Harry Enfield exuberantly returns as Dirk Gently, who, fallen on hard times and dressed as a gypsy woman, is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms. He is saved when a frantic client turns up with a ludicrous story about ...

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Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over. As he leaves Mr Morley's surgery, he observes a woman wearing patent leather shoes with large buckles. She catches one of the buckles on the taxi d...

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In 1940s London, Hercule Poirot is cornered by the club bore and learns of a mysterious death - one which sets him off on one of his most intriguing cases. When Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid his vast fortune passes to his young wife...

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Jane Marple is being treated to a few days' holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram's Hotel - a dignified, establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. It is a place where sedate upper-class ladies, retired military gentlemen and t...

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Akt 3: femtio år och framåt I sin självbiografiska och mycket uppskattade bok Mitt liv så här långt berättade Jane Fonda om sitt liv och delade in det i två akter. I sin nya bok Min bästa tid har hon kommit till akt tre. Här skriver hon om åren fr...

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Peopled with a wonderful collection of warm, wicked and weird characters, Vic Reeves' memoir is an enchanting, surreal and utterly hilarious comic gem. COMIC MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THEBIGGEST NAMES IN BRITISH HUMOUR. Vic, or Jim as he was known, ...

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The voice of motor racing and much loved public figure - and the man responsible for introducing millions of viewers to the previously inaccessible world of Formula 1 - tells the story of his incident-packed life, with a brand new chapter on his g...

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Famed for his gentle innocence and brilliant observational wit, comedian Alan Carr describes his childhood growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton and his rise to become one of Britain's best-loved comedians. `Puberty had been unkind. W...

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Classic stills from the life of one of Britain's most cherished entertainers. This is the extraordinary life story of comic legend Denis Norden, told in momentary snapshots by the master British comedian himself. Containing reminiscences of a care...

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Read by David Mitchell and Robert Webb the comedy duo tackle various subject matters in a 'How to Cope with...' guide addressing various scenarios, and everyday situations. David Mitchell and Robert Webb tackle various subject matters in a 'How to...

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The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe, revisiting locations of significance to his life and career. "e;You might say I'm set in my airways. I'm one of those lucky people whose professional ...

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The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived - just about - to tell the tale... Chris Evans's extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country's most successful broadcasters and producers. From The B...

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What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ?The opening DJ on the Beeb's new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio....

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