Bob Williamson, one of the pioneering generation of folk-club comedians, has died at the age of 67. The Bolton-born entertainer worked alongside Jasper Carrott, Mike Harding and Billy Connolly in the ...

“It’s not a job for a woman – because women aren’t funny,” insists fading comic Lenny Lemon, predicting that the male audience will “be on you like a pack of wolves”. But Maxine Peake’s Funny Cow (her ...

It wasn’t just leather and food that was made in Victorian Bermondsey. Right by the Bricklayer’s Arms depot, in Willow Walk, was Charles Hearson’s strange and scientific idea factory’ that created, ...

The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club is... incredibly dated ITV Running for six series, this was set in a fictional working man’s club, featuring an array of novelty acts performing in front of a ...

Three years after acquiring land on Leeds Street and almost two since lodging plans for 19 and 25-storey buildings, the developer and funding partner Affinius Capital will find out next week if their ...

The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club was a British television variety show produced by Granada Television from 1974 to 1977. It was set in a fictional working men's club in the North of England ...

11:11, Sat, Mar 15, 2025 Updated: 11:11, Sat, Mar 15, 2025 For years broadcasting executives have insisted that televised chess doesn’t work, and now Chess Masters: The Endgame is here to prove it.

This was two-time prime minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81). As his biographer recalled: ‘In the last year of his life, he [Disraeli] said... “You have heard me accused of being a flatterer. It is ...

Best of order, laydees and gentlemen, please. I've been watching re-runs of the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club (Affiliated) on Talking Pictures TV. Starring Northern comedians Bernard Manning ...

One of the great joys of the Royal Variety Performance is spotting the yawning gulf between the gales of laughter that greet the feeblest of jokes and the cutaways of a clearly unimpressed audience.