Bill Bailey (II)

The feast of comic shorts continues with Jo Brand and Bill Bailey's offerings. Brand whisks us back to 1972 - when she is a hormonal teenager in a strop because her parents have moved house and her beloved cat Fluff is missing. But it's when the fondue set comes out that things get really ugly. In Bailey's wonderfully zany film, he's a modern-day Scrooge who finds himself trapped in an underground car park when the technological world turns against him. Only through the voice in the pay-and-display machine will he find redemption.

The excellent Little Crackers series continues with two more autobiographical comic shorts. First, at 9.00pm, Jo Brand takes us back to 1972, a time when fondue sets were all the rage and the comedian was a hormonal teenager sulking because her parents had moved house. Then, in the second of tonight's instalments at 9.15pm, Bill Bailey plays a modern-day Scrooge who finds himself trapped in an underground car park.

More remembrances of things past, this time from Jo Brand and Bill Bailey. Brand sets the controls for the heart of 1972 where her teenage self is having a bad time of it. Her family has money worries, they are moving town and she's being bullied at her new school - until she meets her saviour Susan Pigg. Bailey takes a different approach to the other Little Crackers by not setting his story in his childhood. He plays himself, a grouch who doesn't know the meaning of Christmas spirit.

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