Improv masters Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney perform hilarious off-the-cuff sketches based entirely on audience suggestionsNo script, no props and living by their wit - in this side-splitting series, two of the funniest stars of The Comedy Store Players and Whose Line Is It Anyway? join together to create sketches from ideas shouted out by a live studio audience.Making it up as they go along, Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney riff on topics ranging f...

Classic radio comedy from the BBC starring Caroline Quentin and Jim SweeneyLife for supply teacher, Phil (Jim Sweeney), is turned upside down when his wife, Sarah (Caroline Quentin) is offered a new job. Phil agrees to give up work and become a stay-at-home dad to daughter Sophie - after all, how hard can it be?Phil quickly realises parenthood isn’t all coffee mornings and cake. He has to grapple with playgroups (when he ca...

A gentle comedy drama about the reunion of three old school friendsWhen unemployed teacher Patrick and his wife, high-flying professional Helen, move back to the town where Patrick grew up, they thought life would be simpler. But Patrick's hazy and fond memories of his schooldays are brought back into sharp relief once he's surrounded by the people and places he'd long stopped thinking about, and he realises things were not always as he'd seen them. As Patrick begi...

In this book, I have reflected on a daily basis within my 80th year the effect the pandemic and the subsequent quarantine had on our lives. Such enforced quarantine has allowed me the time to articulate several philosophical and critical views on death, art and literature. I have evaluated family and friend relationships and have attempted to broaden and deepen them. Some thoughts are simply mundane details of everyday life familiar to probably many readers. My thoughts and opinions may be...

All three series of the improvised family saga starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Caroline Quentin and others – plus two special Christmas episodesBased entirely on audience suggestions, this hysterically funny historical drama tells the thrilling extended story of an aristocratic family at war with itself. From Ancient Rome to 1920s Hollywood, we follow the Mastersons’ turbulent history across the centuries, as their fortunes wax and wane, and their fates hang ...