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Most know the actor for his starring role in the Johnny English films. Now, he is a first-time novelist. He tells Rich Pelley about his anxieties, earliest memories and meditation rituals ...

We could all do with a laugh nowadays and, thanks to the miracle of streaming, some of the best comedies of all time are now just a click away. From 1970s slapstick to 1980s political satire and ...

Flick through any newspaper and at least once a week a columnist will lament the trials and tribulations of modern relationships: ghosting, situationships, adultery, all exacerbated by a drove of ...

Alan Ayckbourn is an admirably prolific master craftsman of the stage but his comedies don’t make me laugh. The Scarborough-based Bard of bourgeois discomfiture has penned 91 plays and won seven ...

It may not be apparent on the surface but Amy Beth Hayes, star of Bridgerton and Mr Selfridge, started her life In Darlington.

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest challenge of her life: how most effectively to use the ...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is now well and truly under way, with more than 4,200 shows to take place across the city this August. Making it the biggest ever edition of the festival to date, the ...

The Edinburgh Fringe is one of the world's latest performing arts festival with thousands of shows. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the critic Kate Copstick about the challenges of covering the event.

In Rowan Atkinson’s famous sketch in which he plays the Devil welcoming the damned to Hell, he is asked a question by one new ...

Rowan Atkinson, the comedian best known as Mr Bean and Blackadder, was born in Consett in 1955 and spent his early years growing up on a farm in the Blackhill area of the town before eventually ...