James Walton

I worry Romesh Ranganathan might not have enough work

Plus: a classy new drama on Sky, in which Robert Downey Jr chews cigar and scenery with equal vigour

Romesh Ranganathan and Alex try banana gin with a local Ugandan man in The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan. Credit: BBC/Rumpus Media Ltd 
issue 01 June 2024
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Let’s say, for the purposes of this joke, that I was recently staying in a hotel and kept hearing through the wall a voice shouting, ‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’ At first I assumed it was someone having sex – but I later found out that the next-door room was occupied by Romesh Ranganathan’s agent.

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