If you need a personal life-coach for the New Year, you could do worse than consider Ken Dodd. He might not be your classic inspirational thought-leader, but this is a man who made his debut in ...

Would you place Ken Dodd near the top of a list of comedy greats? Most wouldn’t. A recent YouGov poll put him in a lowly 50th place (the top three were Ronnie Barker, Billy Connolly and Peter ...