British Comedy Guide

Schedule Monday 13th April 2009

Radio 7 8am (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Episode 9.14, The Scarlet Capsule: Professor Ned Quatermass unravels a mystery around some enigmatic blue serge suits. From February 1959. Repeated at 12:00 and 19:00.

CBeebies logo. Credit: BBC 9am
10 min
Timmy Time. Copyright: Aardman Animations

Timmy Time

Series 1, Episode 6 - Timmy Says Sorry

Timmy accidentally kicks a football through the nursery window and has to sit on the naughty stump.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 11:10am (repeat)
Thunderpants

Thunderpants

Patrick Smash is a young lad with an embarrassing problem: powerful, uncontrollable flatulence.

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
Hazelbeach. Ronnie Hazelbeach (Jamie Foreman). Copyright: BBC

Hazelbeach

Series 1, Episode 5

Nick gets a job with a dominatrix and Ronnie buys an extraordinary number of sinks.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 3, Episode 4

Jack Dee talks about smiling, Fred MacAulay looks at Charles Darwin, Will Smith discusses cucumbers and Jeremy Hardy chats about dolphins.

U&Dave channel logo 9pm (repeat)
Red Dwarf. Image shows from L to R: Rimmer (Chris Barrie), Cat (Danny John-Jules), Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), Lister (Craig Charles). Copyright: Grant Naylor Productions / BBC

Red Dwarf

Series IX - Back To Earth, Special - Back To Earth Part 1

Older but no wiser, the crew discover a dimension-hopping leviathan in the ship's water tank.

U&Dave channel logo 9:30pm (repeat)
Red Dwarf. Image shows from L to R: Rimmer (Chris Barrie), Cat (Danny John-Jules), Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), Lister (Craig Charles). Copyright: Grant Naylor Productions / BBC

Red Dwarf

Series IX - Back To Earth, Special - Back To Earth Part 2

Katerina guides Lister back to his home planet, but Earth in 2009 is not everything the crew of Red Dwarf expected.

BBC Two 10pm
30 min
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. Stewart Lee. Copyright: BBC

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle

Series 1, Episode 5 - Comedy

Stewart reminds the audience, in case anyone had forgotten, that he is, in fact, a comedian.

U&Dave channel logo 10pm (repeat)
Red Dwarf. Image shows from L to R: Rimmer (Chris Barrie), Cat (Danny John-Jules), Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), Lister (Craig Charles). Copyright: Grant Naylor Productions / BBC

Red Dwarf

Series IX - Back To Earth, Special - Back To Earth Part 3

Knowing they are destined to die, the Dwarfers track down those who created them to plead for more life.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 10:15pm (repeat)
Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder. Al Murray. Copyright: Avalon Television

Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder

Episode 7

The P.C. PCs make a drugs bust, Schwull meets his match, and Prurient Dad carries out his duties as father of the bride.

Radio 7 10:30pm (repeat)
Acropolis Now

Acropolis Now

Series 1, Episode 3 - Gods

It is Socrates' 85th birthday and the Affable Ones - standing in for the Furies - arrive to take him to the underworld.

Radio 4 11:30pm (repeat)
What A Carve Up!. Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

What A Carve Up!

Episode 5

Farmer Dorothy squeezes every last pound from her livestock.

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