Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979) was a British institution and one of the country’s best-loved entertainers, immortalised in roles such as the gym mistress, Miss Gossage (‘Call me Sausage’), in...

Nicholas Parsons has enjoyed a long and varied career encompassing theatre, television, film and radio. He is perhaps best known as the straight man to Arthur Haynes in the ’60s, as the...

Be sure you marry a pure-blooded Englishman.

The memory of this inexplicable command to nine-year-old Diana Quick by her terminally ill grandfather was to remain buried for years. It...

In ‘Acting Strangely', Martin Jarvis - the genial stage, television and radio actor - assumes many different guises and voices as we follow the humorous, though sometimes harrowing, twists and...

For twenty years Miles Kington wrote a humorous column in which everything was made up and nothing could be trusted. This, his autobiography, was written to those same exacting standards.

Learn and improve your English with the BBC. Collected here for the first time are 12 episodes from BBC Learning English's popular 6 Minute English series. Aimed at intermediate level learners of...

A fascinating collection of archive interviews with the famed lead singer of the Rolling Stones. In this archive we hear - in his owns words - about being the voice of his generation. He talks...

Eric Lomax was a lonely boy in Scotland in the 1930s, a spotter of trains in the glorious age of steam. In 1941 he was sent to Malaya as a member of the Royal Corps of Signals. Taken prisoner...