Seasons & Episodes
Bitter Tweet & What Peebee Did Next
Are you sitting comfortably? Jackanory gets a reboot as famous faces read comic tales. Jack Dee and Sally Phillips narra
Fakespeare & What Do You Say?
Rebecca Front reads a story about a hack writer who discovers a lost Shakespeare play. Kevin Eldon then narrates the tal
The Teacup Has Landed & Pleasure Dome
Twisted tales read by Harry Enfield and Sarah Solemani. An office worker takes on a high-street coffee chain and a downt
The Translator & Road to Hell
When a hungover Sabine accidentally mis-translates an exchange at a diplomatic summit, she realizes she can influence wo
Becoming Zoe & My Former Self
An unremarkable postman turns himself into the perfect boyfriend for a girl he has fallen in love with by reading her ma
Head in the Clouds & the Newsreader
Stephen Mangan and Hugh Dennis narrate funny yarns about a newsreader interviewing an evil dictator and a care assistant
In Space No One Can Hear You Clean & the Weather Man
A cleaner is accidentally launched into space and a weatherman finds that he can control the weather in darkly comic tal
Man's Best Friend & Return to Sender
A scientist creates the perfect wife - using his dog's brain and a prisoner escapes from jail by posting herself out in
The Surprise & the Crisis Plan
David Mitchell and Katherine Parkinson read two dark tales in which a group of party guests fear for their lives and the
Self Storage & the Obituary Writer
Johnny Vegas and Meera Syal read two more twisted tales of a man who finds relics from his dodgy past and a murderous ob
The Untangler & Murder He Wrote
A man with a gift for untangling things tries to woo a princess and a wife is framed for murder by her husband in two ta
Let Me Be the Judge & I'm Still Here
A TV talent show judge gets a taste of their own medicine and a street performer poses as a statue in order to foil an a
Uncivil War & Dread and Breakfast
Things get out of control at a historical re-enactment group when evidence suggests history may have taken a different c
The Catchment Area & the Frogbeast of Pontfidd
A couple desperate to get their 'gifted' daughter into the best local school move into a makeshift camp. In 1901, a phot
The Zombie That Roared & the Sat Nav Did It
When his friend Craig is attacked by zombies, Brian swears to pick them off one by one. In the second tale a disgraced p
The Last Laugh & Abbatnoir
An am-dram group must keep their audience laughing when a bomb is discovered. In the second story a girl gets a job at a
The Truth About Suz & the Vexed Message
After lying to his colleagues about being married, Alan must find a date for the office awards night. A man gets into tr
Unlucky for Sam & Bob's House
A student tries to convince his superstitious, elderly landlady that her beliefs are unfounded. A man tries to prevent h
A Close Slave
In the household of a playwright in Ancient Rome, a slave helps his master to finish writing his latest opus. Little doe
Living with a Lie
A frustrated writer invents an elderly relative as an excuse to get time off work so that he can start work on his novel
The Despot of Tea
An out of work actor agrees to take part in making an advert for tea in an isolated former Soviet-bloc country. Years la
The Survivor
In 1850, a man wakes from a long illness to find that he is being cared for by a group of strangers and a beautiful woma
Proxy Lady
Beth is contacted out-of-the-blue by a reclusive woman who has used Beth's picture on a dating website. Now she wants Be
Devil's Haircut
In New York City in the 1940s, the baritone in a barbershop quartet unwittingly agrees to sell his soul to the devil to
The Disappearance
In London in 1910, an illusionist performs his famed "the lady vanishes" act. Only this time his assistant really has va
Pickled
A down on his luck man, a former aristocrat who squandered away his fortune, stumbles upon an old house with a mysteriou
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