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Britain's favourite comedy double act before Morecambe & Wise found fame in the 1960s, cousins Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss are now largely forgotten - despite having a huge impact on radio and television comedy.

Janet Batchs new album features songs that reflect on growing up in Herkimer County.

A MEMORIAL plaque for one of the UK’s popular 50’s musicians has been unveiled in Monmouthshire – at the site of his death.

BBC gets a complained 52 years on... You don’t normally equate Morecambe and Wise with causing offence. But the BBC’s complaints unit today reveals that they have  investigated the much-loved duo over a comedy sketch they recorded in 1968. The skit featured Irish singer Ronnie Carroll and contained references to the IRA that at least one viewer found offensive enough to complain about. Carroll played an IRA commander testing the Irish credentials of recruits Eric and Ernie, setting them ch...

Born Richard Maxwell on November 4, 1929 in London, he also went by the name Richard Bryce but was best known under the stage name Dickie Valentine. At the age of three, he appeared in Jack’s the Boy, making his acting debut alongside Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneige. He was known to be able to impersonate a number of other singers and while a young boy, was encouraged to take singing lessons by Bill O’Connor – who paid for the lessons himself. While in his late teens, he was perfo...

Share with: The late Anthony Newley was indeed an original and offbeat talent whose versatility is in many respects still greatly underrated. It is not by any means true to say that the nature of this rather surreal series defies the attempts of hapless critics to review it. There is no middle ground here, you will either get this short-lived series or you will find it totally incomprehensible. Sadly, when it was first aired a whopping 60 years ago the latter opinion was overwhelming and this t...