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Back on the road: Alan Carr has beome the star of the Channel 4 schedule but he likes to keep sharp by practising his stand-up routine in London pubs

The Channel 4 Chatty Man who loves to talk but not to Twitter

Despite having three TV shows and a prime slot on Radio 2, Alan Carr still does secret gigs in pubs, he tells Ian Burrell

Inside TV & Radio

Question Time: Ian Camfield, radio presenter

Monday, 6 July 2009

Work: Presents 'The No Nonsense Breakfast Show With Ian Camfield' on Xfm London 104.9 FM, weekdays from 7am-11am Life: Aged 31, he lives in Belsize Park, north London Balance: Going to gigs (Spinal Tap, Steely Dan and Blur in the past week). I’m trying to develop a “gym hobby”

The Last Word: These pointless ambushes are taking the mic

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Not-so-flash interview – five seconds with a breathless victim – is intrusive but the god of TV must be obeyed

Boxing: Sport on the ropes as Sky plays monopoly

Sunday, 5 July 2009

The former boxing promoter Mickey Duff, now 80, tells how many years ago, as a young small-hall hustler, he gave regular work to a journeyman fighter named Yolande Pompey, who suddenly got lucky and knocked out the over-the-hill former world middleweight champion Randolph Turpin. When Duff then offered him top billing on his next show, Pompey's manager, Jack Burns, told him: "Sorry Mickey, we're out of your league now."

Sport on TV: Cold comforts for Cracknell as bottom falls out of his world

Sunday, 5 July 2009

At last week's Henley Regatta, gentlemen in the Members' Enclosure were allowed to take off their jackets for the first time in 33 years, so intense was the heat. Double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell may have allowed himself a wry smile. Six months ago he was trekking across Antarctica in the first race to the South Pole since Scott and Amundsen in 1911. It must have been tempting to tip the champagne bucket over his head as he mopped his brow with a sweaty slice of smoked salmon.

ESPN to tie up with Sky over SPL rights

Friday, 3 July 2009

ESPN and BSkyB are set to launch a joint bid to screen the Scottish Premier League from next season, with an announcement expected as early as today.

Shirley Dent: 'Are you just being weird now?’

Friday, 3 July 2009

Watch this youtube video fully comprehend the sheer and utter frustration which drove Brian Cox, research fellow of the Royal Society and professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester, to ask this question of a gormless TV producer.

DJ Shak has amased 85,000 listeners as the host of Club Asia's breakfast show.

How the King of Breakfast is waking up Asian Britain

Monday, 29 June 2009

DJ 'Shak' believes the UK's Asian audience is a sleeping giant ready to be roused.

Ian Burrell: The BBC's Glastonbury army

Monday, 29 June 2009

Waiting on the platform at the tiny Castle Cary station amid hordes of mud-caked, back-packing Glastonbury festival goers, I was astonished to see, as the London train finally pulled in, a senior BBC executive – last seen in wellies in the festival’s backstage area - already ensconced in first-class, having been delivered by corporation driver to the previous stop.

The Marchioness of Worcester with one of her free-range pigs

The marchioness, the pig farmers and the £140,000 film about muck

Sunday, 28 June 2009

An aristocratic activist has infuriated the world's biggest pork producer

Sport on TV: Croft is no soft touch among those who fell through the net

Sunday, 28 June 2009

It was "Gruntwatch" this week on Today at Wimbledon (BBC2, Wednesday), with a fake David Attenborough delving into the jungles of SW19 to observe the exotic creatures with their "elegant plumage and a truly distinctive cry".

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