Piero Colla is a historian and sociologist trained in Bologna and holds a doctorate from EHESS. He is a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and a researcher attached to the AGORA laboratory.

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Biographer Graham McCann charts the varied ups-and-downs in the long, remarkable career of comedy icon Frankie Howerd.

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