British Comedy Guide

Schedule Tuesday 29th November 2022

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Open books.. Credit: BBC

The Exploding Library

Series 2, Episode 2 - The Bloater, by Rosemary Tonks

Athena Kugblenu searches for Rosemary Tonks, a poet and writer who 'vanished like the Cheshire Cat', shortly after the height of her fame in the late 1960s.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Hennikay. Guy (Bill Bailey). Copyright: CPL Productions

Hennikay

Episode 2 - Grown Up Stuff

One Saturday morning, after a particularly typical Friday night out in Maidstone, a very hung-over Guy tries to lay down some adult ground rules to his unwanted housemate and educate him about life in the modern grown-up world.

Sky Comedy. Copyright: Sky 9pm
35 min
Upright. Image shows left to right: Lucky Flynn (Tim Minchin), Meg Adams (Milly Alcock)

Upright

Series 2, Episode 3

Lucky reluctantly finds himself in Cairns where he spent some time in the years after he fell out with his brother. Though he tries to lay low, Meg isn't one for subtlety and quickly makes their presence known. Lucky is concerned she's running from her problems and the truth of her mother's abandonment. But as Meg ditches Lucky to continue the search herself, an old friend of Lucky's tracks them down. And he's out for blood.

Sky Comedy. Copyright: Sky 9:35pm
35 min
Upright

Upright

Series 2, Episode 4

After escaping Lucky's old mate Duncan, Meg and Lucky continue north. They discover that Meg's mum may be living at a spiritual Wellfullness Commune out in the middle of nowhere.

BBC Two 10:15pm
30 min
Frankie Boyle's New World Order. Image shows left to right: Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Susie McCabe, Frankie Boyle, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, Jamali Maddix

Frankie Boyle's New World Order

Series 6, Episode 6

Frankie Boyle returns to help make sense of this disconcerting time, tackling the issues troubling the planet with Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jamali Maddix, Susie McCabe and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd.

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