Ironically, it’s World Happiness Day and the widow of the great comedian Sir Ken Dodd is chuckling as she sits in the library ...

Extracts from notebooks belonging to Sir Ken Dodd are to be broadcast for the first time in a new documentary about one of ...

Sir Ken Dodd’s widow has spoken about his court hell when he was wrongly accused of tax fraud telling the BBC: “Everybody ...

A woman obsessed with Ken Dodd yesterday pleaded guilty to harassment and setting fire to his home. Ruth Tagg, 34, posted a flaming rag through the 75-year-old comedian's letterbox, causing £ ...

Extracts from notebooks belonging to Sir Ken Dodd are to be broadcast for the first time in a new documentary about the comedian. He had instructed his wife, Lady Anne, to burn all his papers after he ...

From Cilla Black to Sir Ken Dodd and Brian Epstein, Merseyside is the birthplace of many famous faces and influential figures ...

In 1989 Ken Dodd was on trial for defrauding the Inland Revenue. George Carman, who, according to Barry Cryer, could have got Hitler off, tried to derail the trial before it left the station by ...

A Legacy Of Happiness, the 2025 BBC Two TV documentary. Documentary revealing the private man behind one of Britain's most respected comedians, Sir Ken Dodd.

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 ...

Ken Dodd explains how film star Stan Laurel inspired him to get into comedy. With Matthew Paris and Glenn Mitchell. From 2012. Show more Ken Dodd explains to Matthew Parris why movie legend Stan ...