Comedy Connections

Latest Episodes

• Season 6 Episode 8: Little Britain

  The story behind Little Britain, the comedy sketch show written and performed by Matt Lucas and David Walliams, which featured a host of quirky characters from around Britain. The programme reveals how several friends in high places helped the series make the transition from radio to television and how Martin Parr's social realist photographs influenced its visual style. Featuring contributions from Tom Baker and Rob Brydon

• Season 6 Episode 7: Dad's Army

  The secrets behind the comedy Dad's Army, the popular series set among the Home Guard of World War Two, which featured many veterans of stage and screen and established the successful writing partnership of Jimmy Perry and David Croft. The programme reveals the origins of the series title, Arthur Lowe's reluctance to learn his lines and how the pilot episode received a negative response from the test-audience

• Season 6 Episode 6: Sorry

  The story of Ronnie Corbett's hit solo comedy Sorry!, which ran for seven years in the 1980s, showing the life of 41-year-old librarian Timothy Lumsden, who still lived with his domineering mother and henpecked father. The series is cited as the formative influence on the careers of Frank Skinner and Harry Hill