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Series 3
Episode 6
A call centre demon faces judgement, and the Institute for Useless Scientific Research.
River
Personal stories of Joni Mitchell's song 'River', from her 1971 album Blue.
Reindeer
Discover why there is more to reindeer than Rudolph.
AA Milne - The Red House Mystery
A country house party turns into a murder-trail for an amateur sleuth.
Newly qualified as a management consultant, Santa's son has big plans for the North Pole.
Away For Christmas
Harold's Majorca-bound, but he's not told Albert.
A woman receives stacks of gifts from a lavish admirer, who's inspired by the carol.
5. The Cold Christmas Walk in the Country
Derek Jacobi concludes this evocative portrait of England in the last century.
Ladies of Letters Make Mincemeat
5. Cell-ebration
Vera's family are freed, as Irene writes to her estranged son.
Series 5
Episode 5
Graeme Garden hosts as Gyles Brandreth, Steve Punt, Arthur Smith and Lauren Laverne debate
Series 2
Love All
Romance in the air, but Mr Long has a painful little problem....
A wily pensioner finds competition at the Boxing Day sales.
A romantic tale centred on a fancy Dublin restaurant. Read by Dervla Kirwan.
Stephen Thorne and Elizabeth Proud star in a fairy tale for-our-time.
A mother adjusts to increased deafness whilst harbouring a secret.
1953: Britain prepares for a new Queen - but has Everest been conquered?
Series 1
Friends
Welcome to Tom's world. He has tales to tell in his local pub.
Episode 1
The shady lawyer needs patients as he pretends to be a doctor.
Episode 14
All is finally revealed in 'The Kenneth Horne Story'!
3. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol
Sue Perkins final festive offering is the all-star Clue Dickens extravaganza.
Echoes from the Abbey
Sheila Hodgson provides MR James with a ghostly encounter at Christmas.
Toby Hadoke pays tribute to the sci-fi, fantasy and horror artists whom we lost in 2025.
Episode 4
Promotional lunches and very awkward dinner parties. Quick-fire sketches.
The Bodyguard
Milton discovers that a diva and a tent full of jam don't mix as well as he'd imagined.
Nationalism
Andrew explores the reasons for joining nationalist organisations.
Eddie Izzard interviews Alastair Campbell
The stand-up comic interviews the political spin doctor in the tag-team talk show.
