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BBC Sounds is reporting it had five million listeners in a two week period with growth from live listening and new podcast including The Traitors Uncloaked.The last two weeks of January and early February (22nd Jan – 3rd Feb) included content associa

A combination of live and on-demand content has boosted BBC Sounds listening with a record 5 million weekly users accessing the platform across the last two wee

The commissioning editor for comedy and entertainment, Julia McKenzie, has urged producers to consider the gender balance and aim for a mixed slate.

Typing this column into a not-very-smartphone on a crowded commuter train, I found that rail minister Huw Merriman’s surname kept auto-correcting itself to “Merriment”. He’s provided plenty of it this week.

When was the earliest recorded British joke? Ian Hislop scours the country to find out.

Not enough users of the hacked infidelity website share their stories; more on the UK’s housing crisis; and a philology of funnies

Nothing can disrupt Hislop’s optimism as chortles his way through the double entendre-ridden Anglo-Saxon riddles in a new podcast, writes James Marriott