Comedian, actor and ex-English teacher Greg Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines’s classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the story of Billy Casper training a kestrel as…

Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall’s blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit left a body of work that spanned four…