What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error?
Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes - the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does explaining a joke make it less amusing rather than more ...
Born when Queen Victoria was still on the throne, the Queen Mother married into the Royal Family in 1923, and has earned a place in the nation's heart. This work offers a tribute to the Queen Mother.
When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother Maureen told him he was adopted. It was only later, as Harding set out to look for traces of his birth mother, that he began to understand who his adoptive mother really was - and the benign make-believe world she'd built for herself and her little boy.
