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Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling voyage through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism to Italy's bloody giallo thrillers. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Gatiss
Producer:
John Das
Director:
John Das
Executive Producer:
Michael Poole

The Film Programme

Richard Ayoade; Mark Gatiss; Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Richard Ayoade on The Double, Mark Gatiss reveals the identity of a favourite screen detective, Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris discuss the perils of mechanical effects. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Gatiss
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Ayoade
Interviewed Guest:
Audrey Tautou
Interviewed Guest:
Romain Duris
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Alderman
Interviewed Guest:
Adam Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Helen McCarthy
Interviewed Guest:
Antonia Quirke

Crooked House

Episode 1: The Wainscoting

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Ghost stories about a haunted manor house. In 1786, a self-made man with shady business ethics starts to hear ghastly sounds in the panelling of his drawing room. Show more

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Ghost stories about a haunted manor house. In 1786, a self-made man with shady business ethics starts to hear ghastly sounds in the panelling of his drawing room. Show more

Contributors

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Scotland HD

Comedy starring James McAvoy as a 1980s working-class boy stumbling through university. He tries to achieve his ambition to appear on University Challenge. Show more

Contributors

Brian Jackson:
James McAvoy
Alice Harbinson:
Alice Eve
Julie Jackson:
Catherine Tate
Bamber Gascoigne:
Mark Gatiss
Patrick Watts:
Benedict Cumberbatch
Rebecca Epstein:
Rebecca Hall
Michael Harbinson:
Charles Dance
Rose Harbinson:
Lindsay Duncan
Marcus:
Sule Rimi
Director:
Tom Vaughan
Producer:
Pippa Harris
Producer:
Gary Goetzman
Producer:
Tom Hanks

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The Film Programme

Frances Ha; Birth of a Nation; Porridge; box office trends

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet talks to writer-actor Greta Gerwig about her film Frances Ha. Mark Gatiss looks at Porridge on the big screen. Plus Birth of a Nation and the Ku Klux Klan on film. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Greta Gerwig
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Gatiss
Producer:
Elaine Lester

The Film Programme

Mark Gatiss; Richard Lester on The Beatles; Hercules

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss lines up one of his favourite screen detectives, Richard Lester reveals which of The Beatles was the best actor and Hercules labours again. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Gatiss
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Frayling
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Haynes
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Lester
Interviewed Guest:
Antonia Quirke

The Film Programme

Ben Wheatley on A Field in England; Mark Gatiss on TV classics on the big screen

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sightseers director Ben Wheatley talks to Matthew Sweet about his new civil war film A Field in England, and writer Mark Gatiss talks about TV classics remade for the big screen. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Ben Wheatley
Interviewed Guest:
Sofia Coppola
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Gatiss
Producer:
Elaine Lester

The Film Programme

The World's End; Mark Gatiss On the Buses; Breathe In; Hans Zimmer

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet talks dangerous nostalgia with The World's End director Edgar Wright. Mark Gatiss looks back at cinema spin off of On the Buses. Plus Hans Zimmer on his big break. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Edgar Wright
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Gatiss
Interviewed Guest:
Felicity Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Drake Doremus
Interviewed Guest:
Hans Zimmer
Interviewed Guest:
Pablo Trapero
Producer:
Elaine Lester

The Film Programme

Mark Gatiss; Bob Stanley; Script supervisors; dawn of the prequel

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss lines up his favourite screen detectives, Bob Stanley picks his favourite London soundtrack and Matthew Sweet on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Gatiss
Interviewed Guest:
Bob Stanley
Interviewed Guest:
Penny Eyles
Interviewed Guest:
Angela Allen
Interviewed Guest:
Antonia Quirke

Night Waves

The Singing Detective

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Dennis Potter's television series The Singing Detective. With Kenith Trodd, actor Bill Paterson, critic Anne Karpf and writer Mark Gatiss. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Kenith Trodd
Interviewed Guest:
Bill Paterson
Interviewed Guest:
Anne Karpf
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Gatiss

Sherlock

Series 3

Episode 1: The Empty Hearse

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC Three

Available for years

Contemporary crime drama. Two years after his apparent death and with London under a terrorist threat, Sherlock Holmes walks back into Dr John Watson's life. Show more

Contributors

Sherlock Holmes:
Benedict Cumberbatch
Dr John Watson:
Martin Freeman
Mrs Hudson:
Una Stubbs
DI Lestrade:
Rupert Graves
Mycroft Holmes:
Mark Gatiss
Jim Moriarty:
Andrew Scott
Molly Hooper:
Louise Brealey
Mary Morstan:
Amanda Abbington
Anderson:
Jonathan Aris
Howard Shilcott:
David Fynn
Producer:
Sue Vertue

Duration: 1 hour, 42 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Author Deborah Lipstadt and her legal team battle to prove that the Holocaust did take place when Deborah is sued for libel by English author David Irving, a denier. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Mick Jackson
Deborah Lipstadt:
Rachel Weisz
Richard Rampton:
Tom Wilkinson
David Irving:
Timothy Spall
Anthony Julius:
Andrew Scott
James Lisbon:
Jack Lowden
Laura Tyler:
Caren Pistorius
Sir Charles Gray:
Alex Jennings
Vera Reich:
Harriet Walter
Prof. Robert Jan van der Pelt:
Mark Gatiss
Prof. Richard Evans:
John Sessions
Writer:
David Hare

Inside No. 9

Series 7

Merrily, Merrily

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Available for years

Laurence has arranged a special reunion on a boat for his old university friends. As they strike out across the remote lake, their conversation takes them into troubled waters. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Al Campbell
Producer:
Kim Crowther
Executive Producer:
Adam Tandy
Executive Producer:
Josh Cole

The League of Gentlemen

Series 1

Episode 2: The Road to Royston Vasey

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Black comedy about small-town life. We meet Pop, the godfather of sweets and crisps, and Hilary Briss, a butcher with something sinister in his sausages.

The League of Gentlemen

Series 1

Episode 3: Nightmare in Royston Vasey

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Black comedy about small-town life. Mr Chinnery has an accident with a tortoise. Benjamin is appalled by his aunt and uncle's eating habits. Show more

The League of Gentlemen

Series 1

Episode 4: The Beast of Royston Vasey

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Black comedy series about small-town life. The schoolchildren get a visit from the incompetent Legz Akimbo Theatre Company. Show more

The League of Gentlemen

Series 1

Episode 5: Love Comes to Royston Vasey

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Black comedy series about small-town life. It seems that Mike and Cheryl may have made a mistake in allowing Geoff to be their best man.

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

A celebration of 50 years of comedy on BBC Two, from The Likely Lads and Not Only... But Also in its first year in 1964, up to W1A and Rev. today. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Joanna Lumley
Producer:
Sean Doherty
Director:
Sean Doherty
Executive Producer:
Saurabh Kakkar
Participant:
Ricky Gervais
Participant:
Eric Idle
Participant:
Michael Palin
Participant:
Terry Jones
Participant:
Alan Alda
Participant:
Vic Reeves
Participant:
Bob Mortimer
Participant:
Rebecca Front
Participant:
Alexei Sayle
Participant:
David Mitchell
Participant:
Robert Webb
Participant:
Catherine Tate
Participant:
Bill Bailey
Participant:
Ian Hislop
Participant:
Sarah Millican
Participant:
Dara O Briain
Participant:
James Corden
Participant:
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Participant:
Armando Iannucci
Participant:
Prunella Scales
Participant:
Charlie Brooker
Participant:
Paul Whitehouse
Participant:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Participant:
Graeme Garden
Participant:
Bill Oddie
Participant:
Jeremy Dyson
Participant:
Mark Gatiss
Participant:
Steve Pemberton
Participant:
Reece Shearsmith

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