Schedule Monday 11th May 2009
8am
(repeat)
The Goon Show
Episode 10.2, The Tale of Men's Shirts: It's 1942 and Neddie must stop the Germans' new secret weapon. From December 1959. Repeated at 12.00 and 19.00.
9:45am15 min
My Name Is Daphne Fairfax
Episode 1Arthur's thoughts on the nature of stand-up comedy and how his desire to perform led to mirthless disaster in the rough and tumble of the emerging alternative comedy circuit - a world of sharp, political and angry jesters, directing their ire at the tired old dinosaurs of light entertainment.
11:30am
(repeat)
Rudy's Rare Records
Series 1, Episode 3 - Get Up, Stand UpWhen local pub The White Horse is turned into a posh gastropub, Rudy's monthly DJing spot is cancelled. Whilst an enraged community grows via Facebook, Adam attempts to arrange a date at the refreshed venue with Alison. Meanwhile, Tasha gets engaged and Richie awaits exam results.
2:15pm45 min
Bad By Default
Tanya has bolted with her mother's credit card to Jamaica in this coming-of-age comedy drama by Leah Chillery.
6:30pm30 min
The Museum Of Curiosity
Gallery 2, Episode 2 - Meeting EightComedian Tim Fitzhigham, physicist Simon Singh, and Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter's Guide and co-founder of The Idler donate Don Quixote, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely rare cloud to the museum.
9pm
(repeat)
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
Episode 1 - Fawlty Towers: Re-OpenedJohn Cleese hosts a special tribute to what is arguably the finest sitcom ever made.
9pm60 min
Beyond A Joke
Episode 2 - The Birds The Blokes And The BeesThis edition examines the 1970s obsession with bawdiness and dissects how sitcoms dealt with love, sex and marriage in a typically British, raucous and outrageous manner.
9pm
(repeat)
Gavin & Stacey
Series 1, Episode 5The bride-to-be has her hen party, while Gavin embarks on two stag nights.
10:30pm
(repeat)
Acropolis Now
Series 2, Episode 1 - SignsUncle Liquidites turns up and demands that Plato give up philosophy and enter the funerary urn business.
10:30pm30 min
Ideal
Series 5, Episode 1 - The HealerJenny is in a coma and appears to be seeing the world as one big song-and-dance routine in a series of dream sequences. Meanwhile Moz receives a string of visitors - all of whom believe they can 'snap her out of it'.
10:40pm30 min
The Omid Djalili Show
Series 2, Episode 4Tonight, Omid's characters include Giggles Levine, an entertainer for Starrylight Cruises with an unexpectedly offensive act, and intrepid TV reporter Clive Wallace, who poses as a radical Anglican to go undercover just outside Chelmsford.