Alexei Sayle

imagine… profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on ...

The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a ...

Robin Williams. The comic genius with an electric mind, with a range of talent that left us breathless. The one who amazed and kept us ...

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out ...

A talented fighter must save his beloved gym by training a gentle giant for a bare-knuckle fight.

Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall’s blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and ...

Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.

Eleven-year-old Beanie’s bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of ...

Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating episodes from their communist childhood.

A look back at the making of the insane sitcom and the impact it caused.

Long-time Wire fan Charlie Brooker takes a journey to the mean streets of Baltimore to meet the cast and crew of the series, and undertakes a ...

Drama-documentary which explores the life and work of the writer Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, whose short stories ...

A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the ...

A look back at the origins of the ground breaking BBC comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents

Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January ...

Larry, a young criminal, is taught to walk away from a crime scene and never run by his Uncle Henry, a hitman. However he is a purse snatcher and ...

When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. ...

An hilariously funny one-off comic sitcom in which some mates attempt to rob a pub of its takings.

Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A “Naked Gun” type comedy from Britain, this one-off ...

A young man’s odyssey from a small town in Colorado to Budapest, in search of his estranged girlfriend.

A romantic comedy written by and starring Alexei Sayle. A couple on a first date in London are determined to find a drink after closing time, to ...

A selection of interviews with actors who have played the most famous monsters on Doctor Who.

Cornelius Wettering and Stephen Guerin are expatriates living in Curaçao. They’re bound together by an understanding that each is hiding ...

Convicts Mick and Gary are being escorted to the dentist when their prison van has an accident and they wind up at a remote farmhouse occupied by ...

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical ...

A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family’s land. As it goes ...

Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his ...

A clown is not happy with his job at his father’s circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John ...

In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen’s Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its ...