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The Penguin Lessons review - Steve Coogan and his flippered friend
As if penguins didn’t have enough to fret about with impending tariffs on exporting guano to America, here comes Steve Coogan ...
Steve Coogan interview: ‘One thing Thatcher did was offer a clear ideology – that’s not Keir Starmer’
His reputation as an irascible, press-hating leftie is no longer accurate – thanks to a penguin, Partridge and some crows’ feet ...
Steve Coogan on his very unusual new comedy: ‘The penguin takes the edge off the fascism’
INTERVIEW: In ‘The Penguin Lessons’, the man behind Alan Partridge plays a school teacher in military-occupied Argentina who forms an unlikely bond with a seabird. Such tonal extremes required a ...
Steve Coogan & Jonathan Pryce: Bromance, Pets & Penguins
Steve Coogan & Jonathan Pryce are starring in The Penguin Lessons, based on a memoir of a true life story. Steve befriends a ...
Steve Coogan almost gets outshone by a charismatic penguin in heartwarming film based on a true story
Based on a true story, this heartwarming film stars Steve Coogan as a grumpy English teacher, and a scene-stealing penguin as the one who might just save him.