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All five series of Simon Evans’ BBC Radio 4 show explaining economics through comedy. How do you make money funny? How do you put the comedy in commodity? In this BBC radio show, Simon Evans sets himself the challenge of making economics entertaining through comedic lectures, with the help of special guests including investment gurus, financial journalists and economists.

'Fabulous' JANICE HALLETT 'Great fun...clever and wickedly funny' THE SUN 'Deliciously funny' MARTINA COLE A headmistress is dead. The circumstances are suspicious. And as every parent knows, being on the school group chat can be murder... As educators go, Claudia Stitchwell makes Miss Hannigan...

This performance by Simon Evans is a master class in aloof, patrician observational stand up.To the delight of a packed audience, the star of Live at the Apollo and Stand Up for the Week brings a little polish to the Theatre Royal Brighton. Evans looks back at his life and times, from his early days in London to his family life by the seaside. Along the way, his reflections are as ever as dry and delicious as a good Sancerre, or perhaps a really good radish.

In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are.

Stand-up comedy in Britain is booming, audiences are flocking to comedy clubs in the thousands! Recorded at the legendary Camden Jongleurs club in London, this compilation features 10 of the hottest comics on the UK circuit, performing blistering routines to ecstatic audiences. With Ed Byrne, Rhona Cameron, Sean Meo, Omid Djalili, Junior Simpson, Adam Bloom, Mike Gunn, Marcus Brigstocke, Andy Parsons, and Simon Evans.

Set in a fictional newsroom full of hilarious personalities, this spoof series takes a satirical look at the news. This topical news spoof show, The Way It Is, ran for five series on BBC Radio 4 between 1998 and 2001. Presented by fictional newsreaders Richard Richard (Simon Evans) and Lolly...