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Spotify’s 2025 Wrapped Reveals The Memoirs You’ve Most Loved This Year

Spotify’s 2025 Wrapped is in, and listeners can’t get enough of memoirs that cut straight to the bone—in the top 10 this year is 'I’m Glad My Mom Died', proving that brutally honest stories are the ones we can’t put down.

Marie Claire

‘My husband collects pictures of old men’s faces to give me’: Keira Knightley on art, ghosts and West Ham’s midfield

As she launches her first children’s book, the actor answers your questions on Alan Partridge, her iconic green dress and thrilling 10-year-olds with a bullseye

The Guardian - UK

Why Alan Partridge’s Norwich is perfect for an autumn break

As Steve Coogan’s most famous character returns to our screens, Claire Boobbyer argues Norwich is a charming place for a UK getaway

The Independent UK

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Back of the net! Steve Coogan film roles – ranked

As Manchester’s finest turns 60, with new film Saipan coming soon, we rank the British comedy hero’s best big-screen performances, from Tropic Thunder and Mindhorn to Philomena and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. A-Ha!

The Guardian - UK

Alan Partridge is back at rock bottom – and it’s the funniest he’s been in years

After stadium tour success, the delusional broadcaster is back where he belongs: self-funding a series about the nation’s mental health. As comedy goes, it couldn’t be more pleasurable

The Guardian - UK

How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) on BBC One review: Steve Coogan's cringefest catches the cultural zeitgeist

4/5 Now's a great time to bring back problematic Partridge, and the new series is as bitingly good as ever

Evening Standard

How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) review – nothing else on TV has this many laugh-out-loud moments

The fictional broadcaster remains the funniest comic creation in Britain, as he returns with this hilariously sloppy look at mental health. Is anything as joyous as watching his blunders? Surely not

The Guardian - UK

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TV tonight: Alan Partridge is back to tackle the wellbeing of Britain

Steve Coogan’s totemic character is back – and this time he’s talking mental health. Plus, a brilliant film adaptation of Max Porter’s Shy. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Alan Partridge takes on mental health – and the results are magnificent, excruciating and genuinely touching

COMMENT: From its depiction of midlife ennui to its satirical take on therapy-speak, ‘How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)’ is the best Partridge-related project in years, writes Phil Harrison

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan threatens to 'kill off' Alan Partridge after 34 years as he prepares new BBC mockumentary

The comic icon is gearing up to bring the clueless broadcaster back for a BBC mental-health special, How Are You?

Evening Standard

Alan Partridge is conduit to talk about ‘taboo’ subjects, says Steve Coogan

As TV character returns to BBC, Coogan says new series is a kind of ‘Trojan horse’ to air issues people feel anxious about bringing up

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan on the unusual Partridge viewer letter he keeps in his downstairs loo

BBC Radio 4 listeners had written to the station to say they were ‘appalled’ by Partridge’s on-air behaviour

The Independent UK

Alan Partridge 'begs for cash 'in Crowdfunder ahead of new BBC series

Steve Coogan’s Partridge is back flogging birthday voicemails, oil paintings of your pet and even £10k ‘executive producer’ credits.

Evening Standard

The Alan Partridge joke that caught BBC lawyer’s attention

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Steve Coogan compares key Alan Partridge trait to Keir Starmer

‘Alan is lockstep with whatever will give him the least grief,’ said the actor

The Guardian - UK

‘Partridge is more popular than me – that’s a given!’ Steve Coogan on Alan’s glorious return

For three decades, he has played one of the UK’s greatest ever comedy characters. But how different is he to Alan Partridge really? Ahead of the presenter’s new show about mental health, Coogan is put in the psychologist’s chair

The Guardian - AU

Sally Phillips: ‘I saw Hugh Grant and I screamed. I was surprised he was human-size’

The comedian and actor on what she has learned at clown school, showing her Austin costar Michael Theo around London and the weirdest thing she has done for love

The Independent UK

20 autumn TV shows everyone will be talking about

IN FOCUS: ‘Celebrity Traitors’, the return of ‘Stranger Things’, and a new drama starring the stellar duo of Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are among the highlights of the season, chosen by Louis Chilton, Ellie Harrison and Katie Rosseinsky

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Tim Key: ‘I imagine Alan Partridge smells lightly of Brut aftershave’

The comedian, actor and poet behind The Ballad of Wallis Island on stalking an England cricket captain, being evicted in Edinburgh and his love for fig rolls

The Guardian - UK

The magic of samphire season: Jimi Famurewa’s recipe for mackerel, chorizo, new potato and samphire

When the samphire is growing on the coasts of north Norfolk, our writer returns almost every year to cook this buttery, smoky marine dish

The Independent UK

Tom Basden on Here We Go and The Ballad of Wallis Island: ‘Writing love songs for Carey Mulligan? Mortifying’

INTERVIEW: The writer, actor, and musician has, over the years, quietly become a staple of British comedy. He tells Ellie Harrison about mining absurdity for laughs and his golden partnership with Tim Key

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan says he now dresses the same as character Alan Partridge

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The Independent UK

Steve Coogan says he’s morphing into alter-ego Alan Partridge

Actor has been playing the hubristic broadcaster for over three decades

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan claims Keir Starmer’s Labour will ‘pave the way’ for Reform UK

‘Alan Partridge’ star claimed Labour are ‘putting Band-Aids on the gash in the side of the Titanic’

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan says he now ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher because of Keir Starmer’s politics

‘I never thought I’d say that,’ Alan Partridge star admitted

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