As he demonstrated so spectacularly with Monty Python’s Life of Brian, John Cleese has never suffered from a fear of offending religious sensibilities. None the less, some people do tend to take ...

In an episode first broadcast on October 27, 1970, Monty Python’s Flying Circus featured a sketch about a boxing match. One ...

Monty Python star Michael Palin is making a rare return to acting in Mackenzie Crook's BBC comedy Small Prophets, which ...

At 82, the former Monty Python star is constantly being warned by his three adult children not to take too many risks in his hit travelogues ...

"It's just a flesh wound..." ...

Roger Lewis gets a behind the scenes look in to the inner working of the infamous Cambridge Footlights. New book recounts the drama club's history and alumni.

And in Europe, the medieval era was particularly disease-ridden. But what happened when money and social stigma collided? To ...

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...

Mackenzie Crook is back on the BBC with another comedy series that is having no trouble enchanting viewers. A follow-up to ...

An international team of archaeologists used graveyards in Denmark to investigate social exclusion based on illness.

Medieval Christians in Denmark showed off their wealth in death by buying prestigious graves: the closer to the church, the higher the price ...

The Footlights has turned out star names including Stephen Fry, John Cleese, Douglas Adams, David Baddiel and many more ...