A unique collection of stories, stand-up routines, sketches and interviews from comic legend Dave Allen, drawn together with the full co-operation of his...
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Tells the story of how four people - Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson - grouped together inside a set of offices five floors above...
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Discusses work carried out on window-mounted trickle ventilators and through-wall ventilators to assess their acoustic and ventilation properties. This...
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When we laugh at Dad's Army we laugh at ourselves, and more than 30 years after it was first broadcast, millions of us are still laughing - whenever and...
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An authoritative biography of Britain's most subversive 20th-century clown, from biographer Graham McCann, author of 'Dad's Army' and 'Morecambe and Wise'.
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Tracing the progress of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise from a conventional working-class music-hall act to a mass-audience television team to a national...
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A study of Woody Allen's life and work, and an attempt to locate Allen's work in the great tradition of American popular culture. The book explores that...
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The biography of Cary Grant, film star and icon with a broad and enduring appeal. McCann explores the ambiguities in the life and work of a man whose popularity...
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