British Comedy Guide

Schedule Monday 11th March 2013

CBBC logo. Credit: BBC 3:15pm
5 min
Shaun The Sheep. Copyright: Aardman Animations / BBC

Shaun The Sheep

Series 3, Episode 11 - Film Night

Bitzer discovers Shaun watching old home movies in the barn. He joins him to share some fond memories of life on the farm. However, they don't like everything they see. Things get heated as the pair try to outdo each other by showing embarrassing clips from each other's past. Is this the end of a beautiful friendship?

BBC Radio 3 5:30pm
15 min
Beastly Baroque. Image shows from L to R: Philip Pope, Mitch Benn, Simon Russell Beale, Felicity Duncan. Copyright: BBC

Beastly Baroque

Episode 1 - Battling Bach

The great Johann Sebastian always seems to find time to be engaged in a fight of some sort. And have more children.

CBBC logo. Credit: BBC 6:15pm
30 min
Fit. Image shows from L to R: Cariad Lloyd, Humphrey Ker, Tala Gouveia, Aisling Bea. Copyright: Citrus Television

Fit

Episode 10

This week, a stuntman demonstrates how to deliver porridge on a skateboard, and Brian Butterfield unveils 'the Ultra Pill' - three square meals in one unwieldy tablet.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Just A Minute. Nicholas Parsons. Copyright: BBC

Just A Minute

Series 65, Episode 5

Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. Gyles Brandreth, Alun Cochrane, Stephen Mangan and Paul Merton try to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

BBC Four 8:30pm
Only Connect. Victoria Coren Mitchell

Only Connect - Comic Relief Special

Victoria Coren hosts a special edition of the quiz show. Two teams of clever celebrities prepare to lose their dignity in honour of Comic Relief, as the Neuromantics Charlie Higson, Rufus Hound and Baroness Susan Greenfield take on the combined wits of the Muppets David Mitchell, Rosie Boycott and Bill Turnbull. What connects £100,000, PG Wodehouse, deep reddish-purple and Jack Horner's thumb?

BBC Four 10pm
Michael Palin

Mark Lawson Talks To Michael Palin

Mark Lawson talks to Python and globetrotting national treasure Michael Palin about his childhood and early career days. Palin has been a successful writer, comedian and broadcaster for nearly fifty years. After his early global success with Monty Python, he reinvented himself as our favourite Englishman abroad with his prolific travelogues, as well as an author of novels and diaries. As part of the interview, he recalls some of the highs and lows of the famous comedy ensemble and regales Mark with a German rendition of the Lumberjack song.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 10:35pm
30 min
Being Eileen. Copyright: BBC

Being Eileen

Episode 6 - Birthday

Paula and Ray have spent weeks preparing for Liam's pirate-themed birthday, but all is ruined when Paula drills through a water pipe while hanging up a porthole. They decamp to Eileen's house but things run far from smoothly.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 11:35pm
45 min version
Live At The Apollo. Image shows from L to R: Julian Clary, Omid Djalili, Reginald D Hunter. Copyright: Open Mike Productions

Live At The Apollo

Series 8, Episode 5 - Omid Djalili, Reginald D Hunter, Julian Clary

Omid Djalili presents stand-up from the world-famous Hammersmith Apollo. He introduces sets from Reginald D Hunter and Julian Clary.

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