An hour of children's stories
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as 9.15pm
as 9.30pm
as 5pm
as 5.30pm
1976 comedy.
as 7.30pm
Miriam Margolyes celebrates Charles Dickens's life and characters.
A pick of the last week's aired comedies, including at 2.30 Instant Sunshine, at 3.00 Morecambe and Wise, at 4.00 Ken Dodd's Christmas Cracker and at 4.30 Newsjack
Mark Radcliffe profiles Will Hay, the observational comic star of the 1930s and early 1940s who made the transition from music hall to the big screen.
Geoffrey Wheeler celebrates theatrical proprietors who offered rooms to actors and variety stars unable to afford hotels, with input by Mai, Forsyth, Jimmy Cricket, Ted Ray and famed Manchester landlady Alma McKay.
Matthew Broughton's sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game.
Sci-fi thriller delving into the psyche of a traumatised spaceman.
1976 comedy.
1967 naughty schoolboy comedy with Jimmy Clitheroe.
Alick Rowe's festive drama in which the true meaning behind the carol Good King Wenceslas is revealed, with Timothy West, James Holland, June Barrie and others.
Nicholas Le Prevost reads the spoof sequel to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
1994 Peter Tinniswood comedy drama with Bill Wallis, Shirley Dixon, Maurice Denham, Liz Goulding and Christian Rodska.
Sci-fi comedy by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, read by Chris Barrie.
Comedy sketches, with Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and Marcus Brigstocke.
A selection of comic songs and sketches from 2005.
Comedy panel game.
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