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Season 1

  • S01E01 If

    • September 11, 2002
    • Channel 4

    In this unique programme, modern-day poets Bunmi Ogunsiji, Sophie Wooley, Owen Sheers and Selima Hill set about creating their own, 21st century versions of Rudyard Kipling's poem - If. The…

  • S01E02 Stepford Lives

    • October 4, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Jacques Peretti bleakly comic film charts a day in the life of Graham, Sally and Magda, three fictional characters living in and around the fictional `village' of Harton Wick.

  • S01E03 The A-Z Of Now

    • November 4, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Rachel Newsome, editor of style bible Dazed And Confused, guides viewers alphabetically through the landscape of contemporary culture: a place in which mainstream and underground have merged…

  • S01E04 West Side Stories

    • November 13, 2002
    • Channel 4

    Courttia Newland is a young black British novelist, whose first three novels document the realities of urban life on a council estate in West London.

Season 2

  • S02E01 How Sick Is Your Art?

    • November 14, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Jake Chapman, one of the leading artists of his generation, questions the artistic value of contemporary Young British Art.

  • S02E02 I Am, Unfortunately, Randy Newman

    • November 21, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Singer-songwriter Randy Newman takes journalist and lifetime fan Jon Ronson to his Bel Air home, plays some original songs, and muses on his inexplicable lack of popularity.

  • S02E03 48 People Who Should Be Dead In Hollywood

    • November 28, 2003
    • Channel 4

    A fictionalized conversation between writer, Jacques Peretti and Vincent Gallo - actor, film director and former model, courier, breakdancer, motorcycle champion and sex hustler - who is one of the most feared and misunderstood cult figures in Hollywood today.

  • S02E04 David Peace - Hunter Joker Ripper Writer

    • December 12, 2003
    • Channel 4

    A look at the life and work of one of Britain's most successful young authors: David Peace. His first three novels (Red Riding 1974, 1977 and 1980) loosely fictionalise the extraordinarily heightened sense of fear surrounding the Yorkshire Ripper case, while the fourth (Red Riding 1983) deals with the Miners' Strike.

  • S02E05 How to Watch Television

    • December 19, 2003
    • Channel 4

    Charlie Brooker's enjoyable and informative attempt to explain how to watch TV offers a variety of informed information about what a television is, what's on it and how to view it.

  • S02E06 Four Posh Dinners And A Curry

    • January 8, 2004
    • Channel 4

    Is food the new sex? Or is it the new porn? We are witnessing an unprecedented bombardment of seductive food imagery in the media, but is it a sign that British cuisine is finally getting better? Or are we just ogling Nigella and Jamie as a piece of ultimately unfulfilling titillation?

  • S02E07 Err...Shrigley

    • January 18, 2004
    • Channel 4

    David Shrigley doesn't like TV and he doesn't want to be a celebrity either. Nonetheless he is one of the biggest names in British contemporary art with a growing and equally obsessive fan base.

  • S02E08 Extreme Puppets

    • January 30, 2004
    • Channel 4

    A collaboration between writer Jacques Peretti and the Little Angel Theatre, Britain's foremost marionette company, these five short scenes involve ordinary people interacting with wooden mannequins in everyday situations that illustrate a particular hell of modern life.

Season 3