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A new comedy festival has been announced to take place in Leicester in February. It is intended to replace the Leicester Comedy Festival, the organisers of which declared bankruptcy last week.

16/08/2026 … Australian clown Jeromaia Detto looks to his Italianate heritage for his latest show, performed in character as the lovehound Giuseppe.

This week we hear the essay Sweet Land of Liberty and a recent diary extract.