Mockumentary series from Charlie Brooker. In episode four, Philomena and Mark Lawson examine the first half of the 20th century, with two world wars but no world cup. Show more

Mockumentary series from Charlie Brooker. In the final episode, Cunk has made it to the 21st century and Brexit. Show more

Arts news. Mark Lawson discusses the music of John Tavener, the final Poirot episode and Georges Simenon's first Maigret novel. Plus Bel Mooney reviews the film Don Jon. Show more

Arts news. Mark Lawson talks to Martin Freeman, star of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and reviews the new musical American Psycho, in which Matt Smith plays a serial killer. Show more

Morgan Spurlock's One Direction film reviewed; playwright and artist John Byrne; Nic Roeg the director of Walkabout and Don't Look Now; Steve Punt on the 'straight man' in comedy. Show more

Reviews of John le Carré's novel A Delicate Truth and WWII film In the Fog, Peter and Virginia Bottomley on drama The Politician's Husband, and Adrian Lester's Cultural Exchange. Show more

Catching Fire reviewed, a report from the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, author Michael Ignatieff, artist Alison Wilding, and a tribute to Doris Lessing. With Mark Lawson. Show more

The verdict on Enough Said with the late James Gandolfini, Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson on their musical, TV travels with Stephen Fry and Karl Pilkington, and the art of Paul Klee. Show more

Arts news. Mark Lawson talks to Sandra Bullock about her role in Gravity; Leonard Bernstein as revealed in newly collected letters; the most-performed plays of recent years. Show more

The Doonans go deep into the world of Brit Art when they meet rabble rouser Stacey Bile near the Kate Winslet memorial roundabout. Show more

An interview with bestselling writer Dan Brown, reflecting on Wagner as he turns 200, remembering Morecambe and Wise writer Eddie Braben, and Mary Beard's Cultural Exchange. Show more

Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson, including Now You See Me, Wallander author Henning Mankell, African art at the Tate, and Julia Donaldson's Cultural Exchange. Show more

Mark Lawson interviews When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit author Judith Kerr for her 90th birthday. Plus university comedy Admission, TV drama Dates and Mark Haddon's Cultural Exchange. Show more

Mark Lawson talks to writer and director Woody Allen, whose new film Blue Jasmine stars Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins. Sally Hawkins and Mike Leigh also share their thoughts. Show more

Arts news. Mark Lawson talks to Angela Lansbury, who is about to star in Blithe Spirit in the West End. And director Anton Corbijn pays tribute to the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Show more

Guy Burt on writing The Bletchley Circle, Donal Ryan on his latest novel, Molly Dineen reviews two unusual documentaries, and filmmaker Obi Emelonye on Nollywood and the multiplex. Show more

Christos Tsiolkas, author of the Man Booker-longlisted The Slap, discusses his new novel Barracuda; new film Tim's Vermeer; violinist Maxim Vengerov; and two new US TV cop shows. Show more

Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson. Cellists Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber, Dominic Dromgoole on the Globe's new Jacobean theatre, and photographic culture. Show more

Mark Lawson talks to some of the nominees for this year's Oscars including Steve Coogan and David O Russell, whose con-artist film American Hustle received 10 nominations today. Show more

Mark Lawson with Kate Atkinson, winner of the novel category in the Costa Book Awards; Hugh Dennis and Tyger Drew-Honey on Outnumbered; and a review of August Osage County. Show more