Anarchic pop quiz. Host Rhod Gilbert and regular team captains Noel Fielding and Phill Jupitus are joined by Alex Brooker, Sara Pascoe, John Cooper Clarke and Amelia Lily. Show more
Quiz show. David Baddiel, Dr John Cooper Clarke and Philippa Gregory face Hugh Dennis, Julian Lloyd Webber and Lynne Truss in a Sport Relief special. Show more
Saturday Live
Feargal Sharkey
1 hour, 28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Extraordinary stories, unusual people and a sideways look at the world. With Feargal Sharkey, Josette Simon, Hugh Thomson, Cat Irving. Show more
Great Lives
Salvador Dali
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Available for over a year
Melting clocks and lobster phones. John Cooper Clarke on moustachioed surrealist Salvador Dali. With Matthew Parris. From 2013. Show more
How the edges between performance poetry and popular music have become blurred, a cross-pollination that began in 1965 when Allen Ginsberg stormed the Royal Albert Hall stage. Show more
Poetry Please
John Cooper Clarke
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Roger McGough is joined by John Cooper Clarke, who shares a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. Show more
Front Row
BBC Short Story Award; Jack Vettriano retrospective; poet John Cooper Clarke
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
John Wilson reveals the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013, reviews a major Jack Vettriano exhibition in Glasgow, and interviews punk poet John Cooper Clarke. Show more
Poet Dr John Cooper Clarke and comic and TV panellist Phill Jupitus seek treasure in East Anglia, with excellent expert guidance courtesy of auctioneer James Braxton and dealer Stephanie Connell. Show more
A poems selection from the Bard of Salford including I Married a Monster from Outta Space and Avocado Vignette. From 2016. Show more
A poem selection from the Bard of Salford including To A Tikka Shirt, George, 21 Gun Salute Suit and Smooth Operetta. From 2016. Show more
A poem selection from the Bard of Salford including Majorca, Dekko Beach and I Mustn't Go Down to the Sea Again. From 2016. Show more
A poem selection from the Bard of Salford including 36 Hours, Crazy Mixed Up Killer and Kung Fu International. From 2016. Show more
John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and discovers how this addiction memoir avoids the cliches of modern 'misery-lit'. Show more
Victoria runs the postwar gamut from artist, drinker and sexual masochist Francis Bacon to the modern-day, latte-sipping hipster, and asks if we're all bohemians now. Show more
Cultural highlights programme featuring Seattle band Fleet Foxes and original punk poet John Cooper Clarke, and a look at Tate Modern's exhibition of Russian constructivist art. Show more
Cultural highlights programme featuring Seattle band Fleet Foxes and original punk poet John Cooper Clarke, and a look at Tate Modern's exhibition of Russian constructivist art. Show more
The Bard of Salford performs a mixture of classic and previously unheard poems, recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre in London. Show more
The Bard of Salford with a mixture of classic and previously unheard poems. From the BBC's Radio Theatre in London. From 2017. Show more
Jools' Annual Hootenanny
2016/17
2 hours, 25 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD
Jools welcomes in 2017 with his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. With performances by a host of artists including Chaka Khan, Christine and the Queens, Roy Wood and Rag'n'Bone Man. Show more
Extended version of the popular news quiz, with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, guest host Jo Brand and guest panellists John Cooper Clarke and Michael Fabricant.