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Russell Brand is to appear on BBC One's Question Time.

The 38-year-old comedian will take part in the political debate show on Thursday, June 20, with London Mayor Boris Johnson also appearing on the panel.

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey, Labour MP for Dulwich and West Norwood Tessa Jowell, and journalist and author Melanie Phillips will also appear on the edition.

The episode, chaired by presenter David Dimbleby, will be broadcast from London's City Hall.

Question Time is broadcast at 10.35pm on Thursdays on BBC One.

Brand recently backed a Green Party petition to look at the effects of UK drug laws.

It was confirmed today (June 6) that Brand's FX series Brand X will not be returning for a third season, although the stand-up is working with the network on a new format.

Actor infamous for antisemitic rant is to make a movie about a legendary Jewish warrior

Age: 55.

Appearance: Twinkly-eyed bigot.

Woah there! He's a big famous star. He has lawyers. Twinkly-eyed occasional bigot, then. Or twinkly-eyed reformed bigot. He's definitely made bigoted remarks. While drunk.

Would you repeat them for the benefit of the court? "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," for example. That was what Gibson told the cop who arrested him for drink-driving in 2006. As for Oksana Grigorieva …

Who's she? The mother of his youngest child. She looks like a female canine – or so Gibson allegedly yelled at her while drunk, according to tapes a gossip site claimed to have heard last year. In March he was sentenced to three years' probation after admitting to hitting her.

That must have gone down like diarrhoea in a hot tub. Indeed. After the first outburst, ABC...

It's brilliantly designed, but exhaustion and impending doom haunt the boy wizard's eighth and final adventure

On 18 November 2001, I began my review of the first Harry Potter movie: "It's difficult to separate the film of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter the phenomenon – that astronomical budget; the producers' worldwide deal with Coca-Cola; the billion dollars-worth of associated merchandise; the actors' complaints of being exploited by Hollywood; the declaration by its director, Chris Columbus, that Jk Rowling's novel merited the respect accorded to Shakespeare; the endless opinions on its significance ranging from world premiere guest Brooklyn Beckham to newspaper moralist Melanie Phillips."

A decade on, we have reached the end of what we now call "the journey". Seven Rowling novels have been turned into eight films which take around 20 hours to see (or 36 hours if you watch the DVD extras), and the phenomenon is infinitely greater. A generation...