Frank Skinner

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Geraint Thomas poses after winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Photograph: David Davies/PA
Geraint Thomas wins BBC’s sports personality of the year

The Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas rode a wave of public support to become the BBC’s sports personality of the year and continue cycling’s rec(...)

Adrian Chiles: ‘I’ve seen no spiders, I don’t really get drunk and I don’t misbehave’ Photograph: Jonathan Young
‘I'm Adrian Chiles and I’m not an alcoholic’

There are no strict criteria, but there are a few classic symptoms of alcoholism: Justifying your drinking because it helps you relax, sleep or feel b(...)

England fans in Nizhny Novgorod celebrate after their match against Panama. Photograph: PA
Three lions is once again being sung lustily by England fans

It’s coming home. Three simple words but yet so much more. Twenty-two years after it was first written, the refrain to three lions is once again being(...)

Sean Hughes
Sean Hughes: coruscating comic talent who never compromised

They were Irish comedy’s equivalent of the Famous Five, though nobody ever called them that. Michael Redmond, Kevin McAleer, Ian MacPherson, Owen O’Ne(...)

Frank Skinner with Statto (Angus Loughran) and David Baddiel who fronted BBC Two’s Fantasy Football League 20 years ago. Photograph: Getty
Fantasy sport an increasingly real business success
  • Sport
  • April 29, 2015, 03:00

It’s over 20 years since Fantasy Football League arrived on our television screens. Frank Skinner and David Baddiel on the sofa with Statto (Angus Lou(...)

David Baddiel: ‘The more famous you are, the less the version of you that’s out there is true. I am ridiculously obsessed with authenticity’
David Baddiel: ‘It was weird being depressed and having to go on TV’

‘Fame is a silly thing that makes your life absurd,” says David Baddiel, once a quarter of The Mary Whitehouse Exp(...)

Endgame by Wits’ End, one of two productions of the play at the festival
Beckett is back: ‘It’s entirely unfair that he is seen as alien or grim’

Seán Doran is a man who’s known for his big ideas, and – more importantly – for making them happen. The Derry-born artistic director has carpeted Traf(...)