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  E1A Close Slave

  Jan 30, 2017· 23m

  In the household of a playwright in Ancient Rome, a slave helps his master to finish writing his latest opus. Little does the slave know that he has effectively conceived his own death.

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  E2Living with a Lie

  Jan 31, 2017

  A frustrated writer invents an elderly relative as an excuse to get time off work so that he can start work on his novel. When the doorbell rings and he comes to face-to-face with "Aunt Janet" he discovers that his lie has come to life.

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  E3The Despot of Tea

  Feb 1, 2017

  An out of work actor agrees to take part in making an advert for tea in an isolated former Soviet-bloc country. Years later he returns to the country to discover that his character Sir Slurpington-Boots has become a national treasure.

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  E4The Survivor

  Feb 2, 2017

  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 woman. If, as they insist, he is their guest why is he not allowed to leave the house.

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  E5Proxy Lady

  Feb 6, 2017

  Beth is contacted out-of-the-blue by a reclusive woman who has used Beth's picture on a dating website. Now she wants Beth to pose as her and go and meet the man she has formed a relationship with over the web.

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  E6Devil's Haircut

  Feb 7, 2017

  In New York City in the 1940s, the baritone in a barbershop quartet unwittingly agrees to sell his soul to the devil to make sure that his group win in the national finals.

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  E7The Disappearance

  Feb 8, 2017

  In London in 1910, an illusionist performs his famed "the lady vanishes" act. Only this time his assistant really has vanished without a trace. Has he actually acquired real magic powers?

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  E8PickledFinale

  Feb 9, 2017

  A down on his luck man, a former aristocrat who squandered away his fortune, stumbles upon an old house with a mysterious inhabitant.

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  E1Uncivil War & Dread and Breakfast

  Dec 7, 2015

  Things get out of control at a historical re-enactment group when evidence suggests history may have taken a different course. A young couple check into a mysterious B&B.

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  E2The Catchment Area & the Frogbeast of Pontfidd

  Dec 8, 2015

  A couple desperate to get their 'gifted' daughter into the best local school move into a makeshift camp. In 1901, a photographer attempts to prove a deadly beast doesn't exist.

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  E3The Zombie That Roared & the Sat Nav Did It

  Dec 9, 2015

  When his friend Craig is attacked by zombies, Brian swears to pick them off one by one. In the second tale a disgraced police detective thinks his Sat-Nav is possessed.

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  E4The Last Laugh & Abbatnoir

  Dec 10, 2015

  An am-dram group must keep their audience laughing when a bomb is discovered. In the second story a girl gets a job at an abattoir but can't bring herself to kill the animals.

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  E5The Truth About Suz & the Vexed Message

  Dec 11, 2015

  After lying to his colleagues about being married, Alan must find a date for the office awards night. A man gets into trouble when he sends a text to his boss instead of his wife.

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  E6Unlucky for Sam & Bob's HouseFinale

  Dec 12, 2015

  A student tries to convince his superstitious, elderly landlady that her beliefs are unfounded. A man tries to prevent his girlfriend discovering the CIA agent living under their house.

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  E1In Space No One Can Hear You Clean & the Weather Man

  Sep 24, 2014

  A cleaner is accidentally launched into space and a weatherman finds that he can control the weather in darkly comic tales read by Vic Reeves and Rik Mayall.

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  E2Man's Best Friend & Return to Sender

  Oct 1, 2014

  A scientist creates the perfect wife - using his dog's brain and a prisoner escapes from jail by posting herself out in two twisted tales read by Ben Miller and Sue Perkins.

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  E3The Surprise & the Crisis Plan

  Oct 8, 2014

  David Mitchell and Katherine Parkinson read two dark tales in which a group of party guests fear for their lives and the survivors of an earthquake contemplate cannibalism.

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  E4Self Storage & the Obituary Writer

  Oct 15, 2014

  Johnny Vegas and Meera Syal read two more twisted tales of a man who finds relics from his dodgy past and a murderous obituary writer.

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  E5The Untangler & Murder He Wrote

  Oct 22, 2014

  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 tales narrated by Warwick Davis and Emilia Fox.

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  E6Let Me Be the Judge & I'm Still HereFinale

  Oct 29, 2014

  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 art heist in two more darkly comic tales.

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