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Lucy Porter and three comedian guests chew over the stories everyone is talking about.

Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From July 2002.

Founded 40 years ago, Japan's Studio Ghibli has established itself as one of the most powerful forces in animation. Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode celebrate 40 years of Japanese animators Studio Ghibli.

In August 1986 the first Studio Ghibli film hit the cinema screens. It would go on to bring Japanese animation to a world audience. Hirokatsu Kihara was a young animator who joined the studio to work on Castle in the Sky, its first feature length film. He spoke to Ashley Byrne...

Raffles is dead and Bunny is inconsolable, until a chance meeting with an old friend changes the course of his life.

Aldrich Kemp is dead, although you would never know it. Who killed him? The gang are back with new faces to take on bigger challenges. What is happening in London?

President Heaven holds a peace conference. There can be only one conclusion - all-out war. From September 1997.

The platoon need a mascot so they set off to the nearest field to find one.

An innovative mix of comedy performance and documentary. Dr Phil Hammond reveals that humour and laughter are vital coping mechanisms in the NHS, as he meets staff and patients at Birmingham City Hospital.

Part 1/5. Series following the Royal Opera's music director Sir Antonio Pappano as he and his team prepare the first new Covent Garden staging of Puccini's La Boheme in over 40 years.

Part 6/15. Hortense meets her landlady Queenie Bligh, whose own story is unknowingly interwoven with Hortense's past.

Lloyd Langford, Susie Dent, Dave Gorman and Natalie Haynes vie for verbal supremacy in the game show chaired by Gyles Brandreth. From April 2013.

Can Pete and Cassie's friendship avoid causing jealousy all around them?

Anna is a solitary foster child sent away to a small Norfolk village one summer to recover from illness. Here she makes friends with a mysterious and significant girl called Marnie who lives in Marsh House and discovers a good deal about her past.

Young Tom arrives in Lancaster. He has spent the past four years in the British Army seeing action at Waterloo. He now begins a new life in Lancashire, working in his uncle's carrier business.

Film producer Remington Schofield appears on the scene, have you seen the one about the deaf kid and a dog?

There's a war on wastage at the Civil Service, but where do Jim Hacker's loyalties lie?

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Ray Ellington and Max Geldray reunite for a final fling. From October 1972.

Part 2/5. Series following the Royal Opera's music director Sir Antonio Pappano as he and his team prepare the first new Covent Garden staging of Puccini's La Boheme in over 40 years.

Part 7/15. Queenie begins to regret her decision to marry Bernard. When war breaks out, she finds solace elsewhere.

This instalment from the Sedaris files revolves around the essays 'My Corona' and 'A Better Place', and some fresh diary extracts.

Searching for eagles above one of the busiest tourist resorts in Spain.

A space for Christian reflection with Bible reading, prayer and music.

As the RSC and composer Joe Hisaishi open a stage version of My Neighbour Totoro this month-Chris Harding and guests look at the world and ideas conjured in the Studio Ghibili film.

In this series of The Essay, five leading cultural voices choose a great work of art and talk about a small, under-appreciated aspect of the piece that carries great meaning for them. In this edition, we hear from Welsh journalist and author Angela Hui. Her memoir is called...

Young Tom arrives in Lancaster. He has spent the past four years in the British Army seeing action at Waterloo. He now begins a new life in Lancashire, working in his uncle's carrier business.

Film producer Remington Schofield appears on the scene, have you seen the one about the deaf kid and a dog?

There's a war on wastage at the Civil Service, but where do Jim Hacker's loyalties lie?

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Ray Ellington and Max Geldray reunite for a final fling. From October 1972.

Part 2/5. Series following the Royal Opera's music director Sir Antonio Pappano as he and his team prepare the first new Covent Garden staging of Puccini's La Boheme in over 40 years.

Part 7/15. Queenie begins to regret her decision to marry Bernard. When war breaks out, she finds solace elsewhere.

Can Ray Cooney, Brian Johnston and Barry Cryer hoax Tim Brooke-Taylor?

Arson and revolving bow ties - just another day for Nigel and Michael.

Ged, a young boy who discovers he has special powers is taken on as an apprentice wizard by Ogion. But he inadvertently releases an evil shadow into the world.

As the RSC and composer Joe Hisaishi open a stage version of My Neighbour Totoro this month-Chris Harding and guests look at the world and ideas conjured in the Studio Ghibili film.

In this series of The Essay, five leading cultural voices choose a great work of art and talk about a small, under-appreciated aspect of the piece that carries great meaning for them. In this edition, we hear from Welsh journalist and author Angela Hui. Her memoir is called...

Young Tom arrives in Lancaster. He has spent the past four years in the British Army seeing action at Waterloo. He now begins a new life in Lancashire, working in his uncle's carrier business.

Film producer Remington Schofield appears on the scene, have you seen the one about the deaf kid and a dog?

There's a war on wastage at the Civil Service, but where do Jim Hacker's loyalties lie?

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Ray Ellington and Max Geldray reunite for a final fling. From October 1972.

Part 2/5. Series following the Royal Opera's music director Sir Antonio Pappano as he and his team prepare the first new Covent Garden staging of Puccini's La Boheme in over 40 years.

Part 7/15. Queenie begins to regret her decision to marry Bernard. When war breaks out, she finds solace elsewhere.

Can Ray Cooney, Brian Johnston and Barry Cryer hoax Tim Brooke-Taylor?

Arson and revolving bow ties - just another day for Nigel and Michael.

Ged, a young boy who discovers he has special powers is taken on as an apprentice wizard by Ogion. But he inadvertently releases an evil shadow into the world.

This instalment from the Sedaris files revolves around the essays 'My Corona' and 'A Better Place', and some fresh diary extracts.

Matt Lucas is the host of his own awards do - The Lucases - with gongs for more unlikely categories. With guests Jason Byrne, Graham Norton and Lucy Porter.