{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/af0e16de-9e4b-419b-b090-e1fe8c56f241/8cb45f83-e696-48da-87c4-1673985fab4f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Half glitzy, half dowdy","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba0ef81a8cbec7663cf149/61ba0f46db9996001aebde18.png?height=200","description":"<p>The writer and comedian&nbsp;Charlie Higson, half of the team behind The Fast Show, on the curious history of comedy written and performed by pairs;&nbsp;the novelist Margaret Drabble&nbsp;considers the dizzying new releases from the estate of Anthony Burgess, the man Philip Larkin once called “the Batman of contemporary letters”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Texts</strong></p><p>Stan &amp; Ollie, directed by&nbsp;Jon S. Baird&nbsp;</p><p>Morecambe &amp; Wise: 50 years of sunshine, by Gary Morecambe</p><p>The Double Act: A history of British comedy duos, by Andrew Roberts</p><p>Soupy Twists!: The full, official story of the sophisticated silliness of Stephen Fry &amp; Hugh Laurie, by Jem Roberts</p><p>Beard’s Roman Women by Anthony Burgess, edited by Graham Foster</p><p>Puma by Anthony Burgess, edited by Paul Wake</p><p>The Black Prince by Adam Roberts</p><p>Obscenity and the Arts, a talk by Anthony Burgess, edited by Johnny Walsh</p>","author_name":"The TLS"}