Detectorists

The integrity and chain-smoking of these East German Commies is rather attractive

23 January 2016 9:00 am

No one remembers this now but there really was a period, not so long ago, when the Eighties were universally…

Victorian music-hall comedy wasn’t funny. Why pretend it was?

5 December 2015 9:00 am

Let’s start this week with a joke: ‘You know Mrs Kelly? Do you know Mrs Kelly? Her husband’s that little…

Fellow saddoes rejoice: BBC4 has made a comedy-drama about metal detecting

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Detectorists (BBC4) is a sad git’s niche comedy that would never have been commissioned if it hadn’t been written and…