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The BBC Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is to return with Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon sharing the presenter's chair, a year after the death of Humphrey Lyttelton. Recording began in April and the first shows will be broadcast in June. Humphrey Lyttleton died in April 2008, aged 86, he had hosted the show since its beginning in 1972.
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For the second year running, Harry Hill has taken the coveted best entertainment performance prize at the Bafta TV Awards. Other notable winners included David Attenborough who won the specialist factual programme award for 'Life in Cold Blood' and David Mitchell won the best comedy performance category for 'Peep Show'. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders were presented with the Fellowship, the Academy's highest accolade, in recognition of their popular shows together and their individual programmes such as "The Vicar of Dibley."
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The British and Irish Lions are a sporting phenomenon, an All-Star team combining the best of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland for tours once every four years, going in rotation to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Later this year, Paul O'Connell will lead the team in their tour of South Africa.
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Tonight on Channel 4 Kirstie gets all credit crunchy when she buys a house that's a complete wreck in Devon and invites us to join her as she does it up. So if you can't sell and you can't buy, Kirstie encourages us to renovate renovate, renovate - and she promises you can do it on the cheap!
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Business keynote speaker and entreprenuer, Luke Johnson has been appointed chair of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for 2009.
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ITV's reality show Hells Kitchen where two celebrity teams of aspiring chefs compete for a final prize begins next week. Claudia Winkleman has taken over from Angus Deayton presenting this years series and the three Michelin-starred chef Pierre Marco White will choose who gets fired from the kitchen in the early rounds......
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The new TV show, Genius, invites members of the public to pitch their ideas to a celebrity guest "genius" who then decides whether or not the idea is clever enough to mark them out as a genius. At the end of the show, the guest's two favourite ideas are put to the public who then decide which one of them gets to win the fabled Genius Trophy....
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Four BBC Radio 4 presenters - Libby Purves, Evan Davis, Laurie Taylor and Peter White are being coached as comedians for Comic Relief by Milton Jones, Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi and Josie Long. "Being funny is no joke" says Libby Purves.
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Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week's Radio Times about his latest documentary, on Charles Darwin and natural selection, the broadcaster said: "They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance."Telling the magazine that he was asked why...
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The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 promises to be one of the most important events in the Forum’s history. The significance of the Meeting is such that more than 40 heads of state and government have already confirmed their participation in Davos-Klosters where they will join business leaders as well as NGOs.
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The chairman of Rogers Holdings and co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros said the pound has no underpinning because the UK has nothing to sell and will fall further against the euro and the dollar
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Competitors get off to a flying start in the sixth Vendée Globe race, watched by up to 300,000 people at Les Sables d'Olonne, near La Rochelle.
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