Coordinates: 50°43′30″N 2°56′24″W / 50.725°N 2.940°W / 50.725; -2.940

Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis from the Cobb
Lyme Regis  Lyme Regis shown within Dorset
Population	4,406 [1]
OS grid reference	SY337922
- London	130 miles (210 km)
District	West Dorset
Shire county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LYME REGIS
Postcode district	DT7
Dialling code	01297
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	West Dorset
List of places: UK • England • Dorset

Lyme Regis ( /ˌlaɪmˈriːdʒɪs/) is a coastal town in West Dorset, England, situated 25 miles west of Dorchester and 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset–Devon border. It is nicknamed "The Pearl of Dorset." The town is noted for the fossils found in the cliffs and beaches, which are part of the Heritage Coast—known commercially as the Jurassic Coast—a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall, "The Cobb", features in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, and in the film and novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by local writer John Fowles.

The town was home to Admiral Sir George Somers, its one time mayor and parliamentarian, who founded the Somers Isles, better known as Bermuda.

The town's population at the most recent census was 4,406, 45% of whom were retired.

History[link]

Lyme is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. In the 13th century it developed into one of the major British ports. A Royal Charter was granted by King Edward I in 1284, with the addition of 'Regis' to the town's name. This charter was confirmed by Elizabeth I in 1591.

In 1644, during the English Civil War, Parliamentarians here withstood an eight week siege by Royalist forces under Prince Maurice. It was at Lyme Regis that the Duke of Monmouth landed at the start of the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.

In 1965, the town's railway station was closed, as part of the Beeching Axe. It was rebuilt at Alresford, on the Mid Hants Watercress Railway in Hampshire. The route to Lyme Regis had been notable for being operated by aged Victorian locomotives, one of which is now used on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex.

In 2005, as part of the bicentenary re-enactment of the arrival of the news, aboard the Bermuda sloop HMS Pickle, of Admiral Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the actor playing the part of Trafalgar messenger Lieutenant Lapenotiere was welcomed at Lyme Regis.

Governance[link]

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Lyme Regis is twinned with St. George's, Bermuda.

Geography[link]

Blue Lias cliffs at Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, situated 25 miles west of Dorchester and 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border. It has a population of about 4,406, 45% of whom are retired.^[2]

The town is noted for the fossils found in the cliffs and beaches, which are part of the Heritage Coast—known commercially as the Jurassic Coast—a World Heritage Site. The Jurassic Coast stretches over a distance of 153 kilometres (95 mi), from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks, in the east.^[3] The coastal exposures along the coastline provide a continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rock formations spanning approximately 185 million years of the Earth's history. The localities along the Jurassic Coast include a large range of important fossil zones. The Blue Lias rock is host to a multitude of remains from the early Jurassic, a time from which good fossil records are rare.^[4] Many of the remains are well preserved, with complete specimens of several important species. Many of the earliest discoveries of dinosaur and other prehistoric reptile remains were made in the area surrounding Lyme Regis, notably those discovered by Mary Anning (1799–1847). Significant finds include Ichthyosaur, Plesiosaur, Dimorphodon, Scelidosaurus (one of the first armoured dinosaurs) and Dapedium. The town now holds an annual Mary Anning Day and Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. A fossil of the world's largest moth was discovered in 1966 at Lyme Regis.

Landslips

Landslip, east of Lyme Regis.

To the southwest of Lyme Regis lie Poker's Pool, Seven Rock Point and Pinhay Bay, to the northeast lies Charmouth. The coastal region near Lyme Regis is subject to large landslips. This means that Jurassic age fossils are regularly exposed and can be found on the beaches, but also causes devastation to the town.^[5] One of the most spectacular landslips occurred on 24 December 1839, 3 miles (4.8 km) west along the coast in Devon belonging to Bindon Manor and known as "The Dowlands Landslip". About 45 acres (18 ha) of fields growing wheat and turnips were dislodged when a great chasm was formed more than 300 feet (91 m) across, 160 feet (49 m) deep and 0.75 miles (1.21 km) long. The crops remained intact on the top of what became known as "Goat Island" among the newly formed gullies. On 3 February 1840, five weeks later, there was a second landslip nearby but much smaller than the former. This strange phenomenon attracted many visitors, and the canny farmers charged sixpence for entrance and held a grand reaping party when the wheat ripened.^[6] The area is now known as The Undercliff and is of great interest because of its diverse natural history.

In 2005, work began on a £16 million engineering project to stabilise the cliffs and protect the town from coastal erosion.^[7] The town's main beach was reconstructed and re-opened on 1 July 2006. On the evening of 6 May 2008, a 400 metres (1,300 ft) section of land slipped onto the beach between Lyme Regis and Charmouth. Local Police described the landslip as the "worst for 100 years".^[8] This has necessitated the diversion of the South West Coast Path inland from Lyme Regis to Charmouth via the Lyme Regis Golf Course.

Places of interest[link]

The Cobb[link]

The Cobb, with boats grounded in the harbour at low tide.

Lyme Regis is well known for "The Cobb", a harbour wall full of character and history. It is an important feature in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion (1818), and in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by local writer John Fowles.

The first written mention of the Cobb is in a 1328 document describing it as having been damaged by storms. The structure was made of oak piles driven into the seabed with boulders stacked between them. The boulders were floated into place tied between empty barrels.

The Cobb was of economic importance to the town and surrounding area, allowing it to develop as both a major port and a shipbuilding centre from the 13th century onwards. Shipbuilding was particularly significant between 1780 and 1850 with around 100 ships launched including a 12-gun Royal Navy brig called HMS Snap.^[9] The wall of the Cobb provided both a breakwater to protect the town from storms and an artificial harbour.

The centre of Lyme Regis. Notice the ammonite street light decoration.

Well-sited for trade with France, the port's most prosperous period was from the 16th century until the end of the 18th century, and as recently as 1780 it was larger than Liverpool. The town's importance as a port declined in the 19th century because it was unable to handle the increase in ship sizes.

It was in the Cobb harbour, after the great storm of 1824, that Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN carried out his pioneering lifeboat design work.

A 1685 account describes it as being made of boulders simply heaped up on each other: "an immense mass of stone, of a shape of a demi-lune, with a bar in the middle of the concave: no one stone that lies there was ever touched with a tool or bedded in any sort of cement, but all the pebbles of the see are piled up, and held by their bearings only, and the surge plays in and out through the interstices of the stone in a wonderful manner."

The Cobb has been destroyed or severely damaged by storms several times; it was swept away in 1377 which led to the destruction of 50 boats and 80 houses. The southern arm was added in the 1690s, and rebuilt in 1793 following its destruction in a storm the previous year. This is thought to be the first time that mortar was used in the Cobb's construction. The Cobb was reconstructed in 1820 using Portland Admiralty Roach, a type of Portland stone.

The Cobb also separates Monmouth Beach and Cobb Gate Beach.

The Town Mill[link]

Interior of the mill

The watermill, dating from 1340, has been restored to working order and produces flour which is used in the mill's bakery and also sold in its shop.^[10] The water comes from the River Lym (also called Lim), which feeds the mill via a "leat". This runs along a terrace or lynch, hence the description of lynch mill. The Domesday Book records the existence of a mill at Lyme in 1086, so the site could be much older. A small brewery, Town Mill Brewery, opened in a part of the Town Mill in March 2010.^[11]

St Michael's Church[link]

St Michael's Church

The parish church is St Michael's, on Church Street. Its full title is parish church of St Michael the Archangel. It is situated above Church Cliff and dominates the old town. The church was originally a 12th century tripartite structure including an axial tower but transepts were added ca. 1200 and later in the 13th century two aisles. Early in the 16th century a new church was built east of the tower and transepts and the old chancel and aisles removed. The old nave was shortened in the 19th century.^[12]

There are three ways to access the churchyard. From Church Street, enter through the archway and up the steps, next to the Boys' Club or from higher up the hill, direct from Church Street. From Long Entry, there is a steep climb either up steps or up the service road in front of the flats overlooking Lyme Bay. Mary Anning is buried here and there is a stained-glass window dedicated to her memory by members of the Geological Society of London, an organisation that did not admit women until 1904.

Lyme Regis Museum[link]

Coade stone ammonites

The museum, built on the site of paelontologist Mary Anning's birthplace and family shop off Bridge Street, houses a large collection of local memorabilia, historical items and exhibits explaining the local geological and palaeontological treasures. The museum was formerly known as the Philpot Museum.^[13]

Set into the pavement, outside the museum, is an ornate example of Coade stone work, in the form of ammonites, reflecting both local history (Eleanor Coade) and the palaeontology for which the town is famous.

The Dinosaurland Fossil Museum is also located in Lyme Regis in the former church where Mary Anning was baptised.

Lepers Well[link]

On the West bank of the River Lym near the Town Mill is the site of an old chapel "St Mary & the Holy Spirits", known locally as "Lepers Well". The term "Leper" was used as a blanket description of medieval skin diseases and not necessarily "Leprosy" as it is understood today. There is a small plaque on the wall telling of the hospital which stood on the site 700 years ago. The water still runs today although one assumes in a much reduced flow. Little information survives today, the land was left untouched for many years and some locals can remember livestock being kept on the land before it was landscaped into a visitors garden in the 1970s.

Three Cups Hotel[link]

The Three Cups Hotel between 15 and 19 Broad Street has associations with many famous literary and historical figures. It is believed that Jane Austen stayed in Hiscott’s Boarding house on the same site in 1804.^[14] The front section of the current building dates from 1807. The hotel has played host to many famous and influential people including Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton and J. R. R. Tolkien who spent several holidays there. In 1944, General Eisenhower delivered an important briefing to senior officers in the first floor lounge prior to D-Day. The building is of significant architectural and historical interest being mentioned in Pevsner’s Buildings of England volume on Dorset. The hotel was used in the making of the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman in 1981, featuring Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. The current owners, Palmers Brewery of Bridport closed the hotel in May 1990 and have announced plans to demolish the significantly historic rear of the building and replace it with retail units, restaurant, visitor and private accommodation.^[15]

Royal Lion Hotel[link]

The Royal Lion Hotel is a former coaching inn, dated to the first decade of the 17th century. It is reputedly haunted; many unexplained ectoplasms have been sighted in the corridors and cold spots.^[16]

Culture[link]

The samba band Street Heat, in the twilight parade marking the end of the 2006 'Lyme Regis Carnival'

The town has a number of annual events, including the 'Lyme Regis Carnival and Regatta', the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival (in conjunction with the London Natural History Museum) and Mary Anning Day. The traditional conger cuddling event takes place during Lifeboat Week. The carnival and regatta is an event which takes place over a whole week, during August and is organised by a committee of local volunteers. All proceeds from the week will be given to local good causes – especially those supporting the young and the old. The week-long summer programme includes yacht and dinghy racing, power boat rides, parades, open air performances in the shelters, sand based games such as egg catching, events such as the golf ball derby and rubber duck races on the River Lym, Chinese lanterns and fireworks.

Lyme Regis has a recent history of record breaking attempts, 410 people singing Frère Jacques^[17] and largest sand ammonite.^[18]

The bonfire night spectacular includes torchlight procession, bonfire on the beach and a firework display. The Christmas Tree Festival has over 30 trees decorated by local organisations in Lyme Regis Baptist Church. An Easter bonnet parade takes place each year in the town on Easter Sunday. A May Day fete has stalls and entertainment from different Lyme groups. Thanks Giving Day has been held since Parliament decreed at the end of the English Civil War that there should be a day of celebration and prayer in Lyme to commemorate the end of the unsuccessful siege of Lyme by the Royalist forces, which was one of the longest sieges of the Civil War. It is celebrated in Lyme by dressing in clothes of the period and parading through the streets. Lyme Regis Football club was formed in 1885 and celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2010. To mark the event Ex-West Ham, Everton and England striker Tony Cottee was made club patron. The club, known as 'the Seasiders', is situated on at the Davey Fort Ground on Charmouth Road and has three senior teams and five junior teams. The senior teams play in the Perry Street & District League.

Notable people[link]

• Mary Anning (1799–1847) was an early British fossil collector and palaeontologist.^[19]
• Jane Austen visited Lyme Regis three times in 1803 and 1804 staying for several weeks in the summer of 1804. The dramatic events in Persuasion led to a flow of fans to the town: the poet Tennyson is said to have gone straight to the Cobb on his arrival, saying, "Show me the exact spot where Louisa Musgrove fell!"^[20]
• Thomas Coram (c 1688–1751), founder of the Foundling Hospital in London.^[21]
• Eleanor Coade (1733–1821), manufacturer of the artificial stone known as coade stone, owned 'Belmont House' from 1784 until 1821.^[21]
• John Fowles, who lived in Lyme Regis for 35 years, latterly in 'Belmont House', based his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman there.^[22]
• Percy Gilchrist, the metallurgist, was born in Lyme Regis. He is most notable for his work in steel production.^[23]
• Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), writer and essayist who, with his father Joseph Hayward, an amateur horticulturist of 'Westhill', Silver Street, Lyme Regis, successfully brought a landmark case in the 1840s on behalf of the citizens of Lyme Regis, to maintain a permanent right of way for the town's citizens across the cliffs to Axmouth and Seaton.^[24]
• John Gould (1804–1881), artist and ornithologist, was born in Lyme Regis. He wrote and illustrated 18 books about birds including those from Australia. The Gould League is named after him.^[23]
• Beatrix Potter's 1904 holiday in the town resulted in illustrations for her book Little Pig Robinson.^{[citation needed]}
• Maj Gen Sir E. B. Rowcroft (1881–1963), British Army officer and founder of REME retired to and died in Lyme Regis.^[25]
• David Ruffle (1956-) Lyme Regis based author of Sherlock Holmes novels, some of which are set in the town, notably Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror and Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Legacy.
• J. M. W. Turner (1755–1851), English Romantic artist painted a scene of Lyme Regis around 1834 that is now in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA.^{[citation needed]}
• Ian Gillan, vocalist for hard rock band Deep Purple lives in Lyme Regis.

See also[link]

Ammonite-design streetlamps reflect the town's location on the Jurassic Coast

• Regis (Place)
• List of place names with royal patronage in the United Kingdom
• East Devon Way
• List of Dorset Beaches
• List of places on the Jurassic Coast
• List of fossil sites

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lyme Regis

• Town council
• Geology of Lyme Regis area (Southampton University)
• Landslides at Lyme Regis British Geological Survey
• Lyme Regis at the Open Directory Project

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Jo Brand
Jo Brand at the BBC Magazines Awards for Excellence.
Birth name	Josephine Grace Brand
Born	(1957-07-23) 23 July 1957 (age 54) London, United Kingdom
Medium	Stand-up, television, film
Nationality	British
Years active	1986–present
Genres	Observational comedy
Subject(s)	Marriage, Politics
Spouse	Bernie Bourke (1997–present)
Notable works and roles	Getting On

Josephine Grace "Jo" Brand (born 23 July 1957)^[1] is a BAFTA winning British comedienne, writer, and actress. Commencing her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand up scene and early performances on Saturday Live, she went on to appearances on The Brain Drain, Channel 4's Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, Getting On and various television appearances including as a regular guest on QI. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

Early life[link]

Jo Brand was born 23 July 1957^[2] in Wandsworth, London.^[3] Her mother was a social worker. Brand is the middle of three children, with two brothers.^[4] When she was about four, the family moved to the village of St Mary's Platt near Sevenoaks in Kent,^[5] and a year later to Benenden.^[5] Brand was educated at Helenswood School, Hastings, Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School^[5] and Bexhill College. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for ten years, at the South London Bethlem, Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea and Maudsley Hospital in South London.^[6][7]

Comedy career[link]

Brand was persuaded by agent Malcolm Hardee to begin a career in stand-up comedy, where she acquired the stage name "The Sea Monster". She was part of the British alternative comedy movement, working in London alternative comedy clubs, and appearing initially on the Saturday Live television show.

Brand's early style involved her delivering jokes in a bored monotone, one line at a time, with pauses in between. It drew heavily from pop culture and the media, with many jokes containing references to well-known celebrities and public figures. With her Doc Marten boots, her large size, and her short hair, her image remained the same for most of the 1980s and 1990s. Her appearance and material led to false rumours that she was a lesbian.^[8]

Jo Brand in 1994 in Belfast

In 1993 she became a resident panellist, along with Tony Hawks, on BBC monologue show The Brain Drain. Her transition into mainstream television continued when she obtained her own series on Channel 4, Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, co-written with comedy writer Jim Miller, who was already her main stand-up writer. She has had several solo television series, and presented shows such as Jo Brand's Commercial Breakdown. She had a cameo appearance in the 1994 episode of Absolutely Fabulous, "New Best Friend", and also appeared on Star Spell, a spin off from Hard Spell in 2004. Her television success continued with guest appearances on shows such as Have I Got News for You and QI. As a fan of Countdown, she achieved an ambition when she was invited to appear in the show's "Dictionary Corner" as the celebrity guest. She later became a friend of the host, Richard Whiteley, and after his death in 2005 attended his memorial service at York Minster. She has since appeared on Countdown several more times.

In 2007, Brand narrated Laughter & Tears: The Les Dawson Story, a documentary tribute to Les Dawson, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 2007.

Brand took part in the first celebrity version of Comic Relief does Fame Academy. In 2007, she appeared as a celebrity contestant on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, again to raise money for Comic Relief. In 2009 she participated in Let's Dance for Comic Relief, another Comic Relief fundraiser, dancing as Britney Spears, reaching the final. She has more recently been a judge on the show.

Brand appeared as a judge in the BBC2 series The Speaker in April 2009. She offered advice, along with John Amaechi and Jeremy Stockwell, in the eight-part series charting the search for "Britain's Best Young Speaker".^[9]

Brand co-wrote and starred in the BBC Four sitcom Getting On alongside Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, for which she won the 2011 Best TV Comedy Actress BAFTA award. The series was directed by Peter Capaldi and is a gritty and realistic satire on the current state of the NHS, set in an old person's ward.

In 2010, Brand took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

In 2011, Brand presented Jo Brand's Big Splash, a television programme where she performs a stand-up routine and visits people with a love of water.

She played the Demon Dinner Lady in the 2011 British live-action 3D family comedy film Horrid Henry: The Movie. Jo provided a voiceover for the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre's 2011 Pantomime Aladdin.

Other work[link]

In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2004, Brand appeared in a special episode of What Not to Wear, where fashion gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine gave her a makeover. In March 2006, Jo appeared on Parkinson with Daniel Day-Lewis and Jane Fonda. Brand is known to be a big fan of Crystal Palace Football Club, and has sponsored the match ball for games in the past.^{[citation needed]}

Brand appeared on the 25 March 2007 episode of Play It Again where she was required to learn how to play the organ in just four months. This was in preparation to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for an audience of 8,000 people at London's Royal Albert Hall on the second largest pipe organ in the United Kingdom. In order to practise her performance, she played at a church wedding, and accompanied dancers at Blackpool Tower. Prior to this, her only experiences with musical instruments had been childhood piano and violin lessons.^[10]

Books[link]

Brand has written a number of commercially successful books:

• A Load of Old Balls: Men in History (London: Simon & Schuster, 1994). ISBN 0-671-71385-X
• A Load of Old Ball Crunchers: Women in History (London: Simon & Schuster, 1996). ISBN 0-684-81695-4
• Mental (with Helen Griffin. HTV Sherman Plays series. Cardiff: Drama Association of Wales, 1996). ISBN 1-898740-41-0
• Sorting Out Billie (novel. London: Review, 2004). ISBN 0-7553-2336-X
• It's Different for Girls (novel. London: Headline Review, 2005). ISBN 0-7553-2229-0
• The More You Ignore Me (novel. London: Headline Review, 2009). ISBN 0-7553-2231-2
• Look Back in Hunger. The Autobiography (London: Headline Review, 2009). ISBN 0-7553-5525-3
• Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down. The Autobiography – Part 2 (London: Headline Review, 2010). ISBN 978-0-7553-5526-6

Sorting Out Billie and The More You Ignore Me deal with socially dysfunctional behaviour and draw on her experience in psychiatric nursing. It's Different for Girls looks at growing up in a one-horse seaside town.^[11]

Personal life[link]

Brand married Bernie Bourke, a psychiatric nurse, in 1997^[3] in Shropshire.

Jo Brand at Bonkers Fest 2007

Brand delivered a guest lecture on the subject of psychiatric nursing for the University of Derby Psychology Society in 1997 in return for a donation to Derby Rape Crisis. Also in 1997 she opened, at Lambeth Hospital in South London, the first major exhibition of The Adamson Collection since the death of Edward Adamson, the pioneer of Art Therapy, in 1996.

On July 17, 2007, Brand was awarded an honorary doctorate for her former work as a psychiatric nurse from the University of Glamorgan. Professor Donna Mead, Dean of the School of Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan who read Brand up for the award commented, “Jo incorporates much of her experience working in the field of mental health into her current work as a comedian. This has increased awareness of the work done by nurses in the mental health field. She has also used her experiences of working with individuals with conditions such as Alzheimer’s to promote awareness of and raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society.” ^[12]

In February 2009, Brand was among a group of British entertainers who wrote an open letter to The Times of London in support of the Bahá'í leaders then on trial in Iran.^[13]

She is a supporter of the charity ActionAid and has taken part in fundraising events for the organisation.^[14]

Politics[link]

Brand is a staunch supporter of the Labour Party.^[15] She was still a contributor to and supporter of the party in 2010.^[16] She is a patron of International Animal Rescue and the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association, as well as the National Self Harm Network, otherwise known as NSHN, and London Nightline. She is the president of The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust.^[17] Brand introduced and spoke at the celebration of Michael Foot's life at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on 8 November 2010.^[18] She is also a republican. In January 2012 she gave the Annual South Shields annual lecture at Harton Technology College alongside the MP of the town, David Miliband.

Awards and nominations[link]

• British Comedy Award 2011: Best TV Comedy Actress
• BAFTA: Best Female Performance in a Comedy Role.

Stand-up DVDs[link]

• Barely Live (24 November 2003)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jo Brand

• Jo Brand at the Internet Movie Database
• Jo Brand: Me? Singing? I couldn't get arrested? Interview by Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 30 January 2008.
• Keep on running: Jo Brand Interview by Tarquin Cooper, The Telegraph, 9 April 2005.
• Article about Brand's career for TV show The Speaker, BBC website
• BBC Interview by Matt Stadlen – Five Minutes With: Jo Brand (2009–08–14)