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First broadcast: Friday 30 January 2004, 12AM on 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.
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First broadcast: Sunday 18 January 2004, 12AM on 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.
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First broadcast: Thursday 08 January 2004, 12AM on 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?
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First broadcast: Friday 19 December 2003, 12AM on 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.
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First broadcast: Friday 12 December 2003, 12AM on 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.
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First broadcast: Friday 28 November 2003, 12AM on 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.
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First broadcast: Friday 21 November 2003, 12AM on 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.
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First broadcast: Friday 14 November 2003, 12AM on Channel 4
Jake Chapman, one of the leading artists of his generation, questions the artistic value of contemporary Young British Art.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 13 November 2002, 12AM on 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.
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First broadcast: Monday 04 November 2002, 12AM on 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, buying a Dido CD has replaced political protest, and history is recalled as a series of Top Ten lists.
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First broadcast: Saturday 05 October 2002, 12AM on 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.
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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 results show a fundamental shift in our attitudes towards imperialism, race and masculinity.
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