7 OCTOBER 2006, page 19

Ken Dodd: Still Happy After All These Years

More than 50 years after his debut, the Squire of Knotty Ash plays 120 shows a year, each lasting five hours. He tells Michael Henderson what comedy is — and quotes Aristotle T......

Mind Your Language

I’ve just bought my husband’s Christmas present. It is Gallimaufry (Oxford, £12.99) by Michael Quinion. He was the man, you may remember, who wrote Port Out, Starboard Home and......