Eric Idle

Looking on the bright side of life with Eric Idle

26 September 2026 9:00 am

Provence ‘Would you like to meet Eric Idle? Don’t worry, he and his wife Tania are smashing.’ This was 2009.…

A rare combination of humour and pathos: the sublimely talented Neil Innes

7 December 2024 9:00 am

The musician and parodist, whose mantra was ‘not to say no when there’s a way to say yes’, had a gift for creating happiness in private as well as public, as his widow poignantly attests