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Singer and actor who appeared in theatrical variety and worked on TV light entertainment programmes such as Candid Camera and The Leslie Crowther Show

The Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix – ex-Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has known them all

A night of Tony Hancock’s brilliance. Plus: Kyle MacLachlan stars in a juicy new war drama. Here’s what to watch this evening

‘The Marriage Bureau’ has not been heard since 1955

The radio show, which has not been repeated since first airing in 1955, will be played on Radio 4 on 18 October

With Liz Truss becoming the 56th British prime minister, it got me thinking about how many PMs there have been in my lifetime. The answer is 16, going back to Clement Atlee, which is a bit scary. In fact, while I was still residing in the UK there were only…

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The Whitechapel quartet's Tony Hancock-referencing 2002 debut remains a classic - and distinctly English - salvo from what was once dubbed the garage rock revival.

With the release of ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ later this year, starring Lesley Manville as a British cleaning lady going to Paris to buy a Dior dress, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at films set in Paris and says when it comes to wish-fulfilment fantasies on screen, there has only…