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* To mark the tenth anniversary of comedian Benny Hill's death, the story of his career is told in a new book. We spoke to the author Mark Lewisohn and the comic actor and writer Sue Perkins about Benny Hill.
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Mark Lewisohn's book is called Funny Peculiar - The True Story of Benny Hill.
* Michael Palin paid tribute to the writer, comedian and broadcaster Barry Took who died at the weekend.
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* Marco Perella describes the experience of being a bit-part actor, an extra, in Hollywood.
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Adventures of a No Name Actor is available now as a Bloomsbury paperback original.
* Our latest writing competition - launched a fortnight ago - marked World Book Day by asking you to write a 100-word story which included five publishing terms: Binding-Jacket-Index-Pulp and Spine. The final selection was made by the novelist and critic Julie Myerson.
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Read the winning entries
* Will Allsop, whose buildings include the award-winning Peckham Library, has been hired to regenerate Barnsley and has taken as his model the Tuscan hill town of Lucca. Front Row has commissioned a poem on this subject from the Barnsley based writer and poet Ian Macmillan.
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On tomorrow's programme
the American satirist Michael Moore and juvenile headlines: Newsround at 30.
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