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Schedule Tuesday 13th May 2025

Talking Pictures TV 6am (repeat)
Carry On Admiral

Carry On Admiral

1957 British comedy film directed by Val Guest. Not part of the Carry On series of films, which it predates, though it is similar in tone and style.

Comedy Central 12pm (repeat)
Guessable?. Craig Revel Horwood. Copyright: Tuesday's Child

Guessable?

Series 2, Episode 1

Sara Pascoe, alongside team captains Alan Davies and Darren Harriott, welcome Craig Revel Horwood, Nish Kumar, Roisin Conaty, and Huge Davies into the loft.

Film4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 12:35pm (repeat)
Kind Hearts And Coronets. The General D'Ascoyne (Alec Guinness). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL / Ealing Studios

Kind Hearts And Coronets

Black Ealing comedy with eight classic characterisations by Alec Guinness as the noble victims of vengeance-seeking relative Dennis Price.

Talking Pictures TV 2:10pm (repeat)
The Great Game

The Great Game

Thora Hird, Diana Dors and James Hayter star in this 1950s film about a football club chairman who illegally approaches a rival club's star player.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Alyth Ross

Four Gammons And A Unicorn

Satirical comedy about a teenage girl who falls foul of campus orthodoxy, and accidentally becomes a right-wing media darling.

Talking Pictures TV 3:45pm (repeat)
Miranda. Miranda (Glynis Johns)

Miranda

Comic romantic adventure. After saving a newly-married doctor on a fishing holiday, mermaid Miranda convinces him to take her to see London.

Comedy Central Extra 4pm (repeat)
Guessable?. Craig Revel Horwood. Copyright: Tuesday's Child

Guessable?

Series 2, Episode 1

Sara Pascoe, alongside team captains Alan Davies and Darren Harriott, welcome Craig Revel Horwood, Nish Kumar, Roisin Conaty, and Huge Davies into the loft.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Unspeakable. Image shows left to right: Phil Wang, Susie Dent

Unspeakable

Series 2, Episode 1 - A Real Nail-Biter

Phil Wang and Susie Dent challenge guests to invent new words to help create the new ultimate Unspeakable dictionary. With special guests Clive Anderson, Ed Gamble and Sindhu Vee.

Film4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 6:45pm (repeat)
Fisherman's Friends

Fisherman's Friends

Comedy about a group of Cornish fisherman whose singing group lands a record deal.

Sky Max. Copyright: Sky 9pm
60 min
Joe Lycett's United States Of Birmingham. Joe Lycett

Joe Lycett's United States Of Birmingham

Episode 4

Joe's voyage to all the Birminghams finishes in Birmingham Alabama, the biggest US Brum of the trip.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation 1am (repeat)
Taskmaster. Image shows left to right: Rosie Ramsey, Jason Mantzoukas, Greg Davies, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Mathew Baynton, Stevie Martin, Alex Horne

Taskmaster

Series 19, Episode 2 - An Invisible Jump Rope

The first team task of the series brings the usual awkwardness, but also the joys of Stevie Martin inventing a new way for humans to move, and Fatiha El-Ghorri sweeping the lawn with a small broom. Elsewhere, Rosie Ramsey has a visceral reaction to mental arithmetic, Mathew Baynton strikes his own face with a grape, and Jason Mantzoukas destroys a shower.

Comedy Central 1:30am (repeat)
Lee Evans Live At Her Majesty's Theatre. Lee Evans. Copyright: Little Mo Films

Lee Evans Live At Her Majesty's Theatre

Lee Evans captured at his hilarious best at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

Comedy Central Extra 2:55am (repeat)
The Ricky Gervais Show. Image shows from L to R: Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais. Copyright: Media Rights Capital / Wildbrain

The Ricky Gervais Show

Series 1, Episode 3

Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington cover a range of pointless topics, including the problems over donating goats to African families, space travel and Karl's preferred super power.

Comedy Central Extra 3:20am (repeat)
The Ricky Gervais Show. Image shows from L to R: Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais. Copyright: Media Rights Capital / Wildbrain

The Ricky Gervais Show

Series 1, Episode 4

Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington cover a range of pointless topics, including Papua New Guinea, sainthood, and a lonely monkey brought home by a zookeeper.

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