British Comedy Guide

Schedule Tuesday 24th December 2024

Radio 4 9am
30 min
Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

Christmas Special - Saturnalia

Expect gifts, special pyjamas, drinking games and cross-dressing. Natalie celebrates the mid-winter festival of Ancient Rome, Saturnalia, with André Vincent and Llewelyn Morgan.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Best Medicine. Image shows left to right: Desiree Burch, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Abdullah Khan, Mark Williams

Best Medicine

Series 2, Episode 6 - Pain Management, Organoids, Prosthetic Leg Covers

Desiree Burch discovers ways to cope with pain, Dr Abdullah Khan explores tiny beating hearts in a dish, and Dr Mark Williams tells Kiri how losing his leg led to finding his purpose.

BBC Four 8pm
30 min
Dick Clement And Ian La Frenais Remember... Porridge. Image shows left to right: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

Dick Clement And Ian La Frenais Remember... Porridge

Fifty years on from when the prison doors first slammed shut on Norman Stanley Fletcher, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais look back at this landmark British comedy.

BBC Two 9:15pm
60 min
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

Christmas Special - Gone Christmas Fishing 2024

Paul and Bob head to Cahors in the South West of France, where they celebrate another eventful year of fishing together.

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