Jack Dee, Sally Phillips
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2013
Are you sitting comfortably? Jackanory gets a reboot as famous faces read comic tales. Jack Dee and Sally Phillips narrate stories about a Twitter addict and a dead toymaker!
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2013
Are you sitting comfortably? Jackanory gets a reboot as famous faces read comic tales. Jack Dee and Sally Phillips narrate stories about a Twitter addict and a dead toymaker!
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2013
Kevin Eldon tells a twisted tale about a man driven to insanity, while Rebecca Front narrates a story about a hack writer who finds a lost Bard play.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2013
Twisted tales read by Harry Enfield and Sarah Solemani. An office worker takes on a high-street coffee chain and a downtrodden librarian gains access to a CIA military drone!
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Dec 4, 2013
Sharon Horgan and Charlie Higson read two darkly comic tales. A translator changes the world order at a political summit. A young female motorist breaks down on Walpurgis Night.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2013
Amusing stories for adults, read by Richard Hammond and Jessica Hynes. A postman reads his crush's mail to learn what makes her tick and a woman meets her eight-year-old self.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Dec 18, 2013
Star-studded storytime! Stephen Mangan and Hugh Dennis narrate funny yarns about a newsreader interviewing an evil dictator and a care assistant who moonlights as a superhero.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 2014
Super stories for big kids! A cleaner is accidentally launched into space and a weatherman controls the climate in two tales read by Vic Reeves and the late, great Rik Mayall.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2014
Ben Miller and Sue Perkins read two superbly twisted tales. A scientist creates the perfect wife using his dog's brain and a convict escapes from jail by mailing herself out!
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2014
Party guests fear for their lives and earthquake survivors consider cannibalism. David Mitchell and Katherine Parkinson are your star storytellers for these ripping dark yarns.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 2014
Are you sitting comfortably? Then Johnny Vegas and Meera Syal will begin. Today's wicked tales are about a murderous obit writer and a man who finds relics from his dodgy past.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 22, 2014
Warwick Davis and Emilia Fox narrate darkly comic tales. A man with a gift for untangling things tries to woo a princess. A wife is framed for a murder plot - by her own hubby.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 29, 2014
Ruby Wax and Simon Callow spin these sublime yarns. A TV talent show judge gets a brutal taste of his own medicine and a street perfomer poses as a statue to foil an art heist.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2015
Dave's award-winning adult short story series is back! Paul Whitehouse's yarn centres on a re-enactment group. Carrie Fisher narrates a tale about a mysterious hotel.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2015
Darkly comic bedtime reading - for big kids only. Star storytellers Catherine Tate and Richard Ayoade spin yarns about sought-after school catchment areas and a deadly beast.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2015
Great Scott! The legendary Doc himself, Christopher Lloyd, narrates a darkly comic tale about a detective's haunted sat nav. Jimmy Carr recites a ghoulish zombie story.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Dec 10, 2015
It's Cracker-nory as Robbie Coltrane narrates a fiendish tale about a panto that faces a bomb threat. An abbatoir worker can't bear killing cows in Sarah Millican's dark yarn.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2015
The very funny Morgana Robinson and Greg Davies lend their vocal skills to two twisted tales about an office awards ceremony and a man who mistakenly sends his boss a text.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2015
The final chapter - for now - of Dave's sublime adult story series, with tales about a superstitious landlady and a man hiding a CIA agent. Simon Bird and Tamsin Greig narrate.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2017 (30 min)
Dave's original short story series returns with Dara O Briain narrating. A Roman slave helps his playwright master finish his latest opus - but at what cost?
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2017
A writer fabricates an elderly relative to get time off work to start his novel - but his lie comes to life! Told by Sheridan Smith.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2017
Are you sitting comfortably? Bob Mortimer spins this dark, witty yarn about a jobbing actor who makes a smash-hit advert for tea in a former Soviet state.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2017
In 1850, a man wakes after a long illness and finds he is being cared for by strangers - but isn't allowed to leave. Anna Friel is your star storyteller.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2017
Bedtime reading for big kids. Beth is contacted by a shy girl who used her image on a dating site and now wants Beth to meet her new beau. Mel Giedroyc narrates.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2017
Doc Brown reads this superbly twisted tale, set in 40s New York. A baritone sells his soul to the devil to ensure his barbershop quartet wins a competition.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2017
Mackenzie Crook spins this twisted yarn. An illusionist performs his 'the lady vanishes' act rather too well and wonders if he has genuine magic powers.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Feb 9, 2017
A twisted tale from the fantastical mind of Kevin Eldon. A hapless former aristocrat stumbles upon an old house with a strange inhabitant. Miriam Margolyes narrates.