Comprising an hour long Archive Hour special on the comedy news quiz, presented by Matthew Parris and featuring interviews with chairmen and panellists past and present. Included in this set is a special edition of The News Quiz, in which current panellists answer questions on subjects from the past 25 years.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and...