Series | Episode | Title | FirstBroadcast | Repeated | Comments |
| | Decide Economic Policy By Sport | | 20110320 (BBC7) | Radical proposals to improve our lives, with the comedian's athletic revolution.|From November 1992.|From 1992 |
| | Pessimism | | 20081111 (BBC7) 20081112 BT=0330 (BBC7) | The radical comedian explains why life is getting harder - and proposes how we can all fight back.|From September 1996.|Episode 4 of 4. |
01 | 01 | The Royal Family Should Be Chosen By A Weekly Lottery | 19921009 | 20040227 (BBC7) 20040228 (BBC7) 20050523 (BBC7) 20050524 (BBC7) 20061102 (BBC7) 20061103 (BBC7) 20080722 (BBC7) 20080723 (BBC7) 20090921 (BBC7) 20110211 (BBC7) 20130327 (BBC7) | Radical proposals from the comedian to change our lives for the better.This week's topic is that the Royal Family should be chosen by a weekly lottery.|This week - revamping the Royal Family.|Radical proposals designed to change our lives for the better, starting with a makeover for the monarchy. |
01 | 02 | No One Should Live In The Same Family For More Than One Year | 19921016 | 19921122 20040305 (BBC7) 20040306 (BBC7) 20050530 (BBC7) 20050531 (BBC7) 20061109 (BBC7) 20061110 (BBC7) 20080729 (BBC7) 20080730 (BBC7) 20090928 (BBC7) 20110218 (BBC7) 20130403 (BBC7) | Mark turns his attention to family life and comes up with the novel idea of moving families every year.|This edition argues no-one should live in the same family for over a year.|Another radical proposal from the comedian.|This week: revolutionising family life.|Another radical proposal to improve our lives, the comedian reveals how to revolutionise family life. |
01 | 03 | All Judges Must Be Ex-convicts | 19921023 | 19921129 20040312 (BBC7) 20040313 (BBC7) 20050606 (BBC7) 20050607 (BBC7) 20061116 (BBC7) 20061117 (BBC7) 20080805 (BBC7) 20080806 (BBC7) 20091005 (BBC7) 20110225 (BBC7) 20130410 (BBC7) | Radical proposals to improve our lives, with the comedian's legal shake-up. From October 1992.|| |Radical proposals to improve our lives, with the comedian's legal shake-up.|From October 1992.|From 1992.|Criminals should be recruited as high courts judges.|This week, a new approach to choosing judges!|The comedian reveals his shake-up for the British legal system. |
01 | 04 | People Should Start School At The Age Of 35 | 19921030 | 19921206 20040319 (BBC7) 20040320 (BBC7) 20050613 (BBC7) 20050614 (BBC7) 20061123 (BBC7) 20061124 (BBC7) 20080812 (BBC7) 20080813 (BBC7) 20091012 (BBC7) 20110304 (BBC7) 20130417 (BBC7) | Radical proposals to improve our lives with the comedian's education shake-up.|Nobody should go to school until they're 35.|Comedian Mark Steel presents a series of humorous arguments.|This edition argues that nobody should go to school until they are 35.|Another radical proposal to change lives for the better.|This week - why school is wasted on youngsters!|Another radical proposal to improve our lives.|The comedian claims that school is wasted on youngsters. |
01 | 05 | Anyone Born In England Should Be Deported | 19921106 | 20030726 (BBC7) 20040326 (BBC7) 20040327 (BBC7) 20050620 (BBC7) 20050621 (BBC7) 20061130 (BBC7) 20061201 (BBC7) 20080819 (BBC7) 20080820 (BBC7) 20091019 (BBC7) 20110311 (BBC7) 20130424 (BBC7) | Mark Steel raises the question of why people in England are so miserable and recommends mass deportation. |
01 | 06 LAST | Government Economic Policy Should Be Decided Through Sport | 19921113 | 19921115 20040402 (BBC7) 20040403 (BBC7) 20050627 (BBC7) 20050628 (BBC7) 20061207 (BBC7) 20061208 (BBC7) 20080826 (BBC7) 20080827 (BBC7) 20091026 (BBC7) 20110318 (BBC7) 20130501 (BBC7) | Radical proposals to improve our lives, with the comedian's athletic revolution.|All government economic policy should be decided by sport.|Mark Steel airs his views on the government's economic policy and suggests that economics should depend on sports.|Could economics be decided by a football game?|The comedian thinks playing football has better uses.|Radical proposals to improve our lives, with the comedian's athletic revolution. From November 1992. |
02 | 01 | Unemployment | 19940715 | 19940716 20040409 (BBC7) 20040410 (BBC7) 20050704 (BBC7) 20050705 (BBC7) 20061214 (BBC7) 20061215 (BBC7) 20080902 (BBC7) 20080903 (BBC7) 20091102 (BBC7) 20120921 (BBC7) 20140329 (BBC7) | |Another radical proposal as the comedian tackles the stresses and strains of the traditional job. From July 1994.|Another radical proposal as the comedian tackles the stresses and strains of the traditional job.|Having a job should be illegal.|Mark Steel presents another deceptively subversive solution to our everyday problems.|This week he tackles unemployment.|Written and performed by Mark Steel and Pete SINCLAIR with Kim Wall and Maria Mcerlane.|Mark tries to see the point of work and the workplace.|Comedian Mark Steel presents a series of humorous arguments.|Mark tries to see the point of the work-place and work.|Mark Steel looks at the stresses and strains of the traditional job. |
02 | 02 | Transport | 19940722 | 20040416 (BBC7) 20040417 (BBC7) 20050711 (BBC7) 20050712 (BBC7) 20061221 (BBC7) 20061222 (BBC7) 20080909 (BBC7) 20080910 (BBC7) 20091109 (BBC7) 20120928 (BBC7) 20140405 (BBC7) | |Another radical proposal as the comedian calls for wacky improvements to Britain's crumbling transport system.|The comedian calls for wacky improvements to Britain's crumbling transport system.|should only be paid for by people who don't use it.|Comedian Mark Steel suggests some wacky improvements to Britain's crumbling transport system.|From July 1994. |
02 | 03 | Housing | 19940729 | 19940730 20040423 (BBC7) 20040424 (BBC7) 20050718 (BBC7) 20050719 (BBC7) 20061228 (BBC7) 20061229 (BBC7) 20080916 (BBC7) 20080917 (BBC7) 20091116 (BBC7) 20121005 (BBC7) 20140412 (BBC7) | |Another radical proposal as the comedian calls for people to be re-housed at random. From July 1994.|Another radical proposal as the comedian calls for people to be re-housed at random.|Written and performed by Mark Steel and Pete Sinclair with Kim Wall and Maria Mcerlane.|Produced by Phil Clarke. |
02 | 04 LAST | The Royal Family Should Be Chosen By A Weekly Lottery | 19940805 | 20080722 (BBC7) 20140419 (BBC7) | |Mark Steel makes another of his slightly controversial proposals. From April 2004. |
02 | 04 LAST | The Royal Family Should Be Chosen By A Weekly Lottery - Revisited | 19940805 | 19940806 20040430 (BBC7) 20040501 (BBC7) 20050725 (BBC7) 20050726 (BBC7) 20070104 (BBC7) 20070105 (BBC7) 20080722 (BBC7) 20121019 (BBC7) | Mark Steel proposes that the royal family are replaced by a lottery family.|The Royal Family should be chosen by weekly lottery (paraphrasing S01 E01). |
03 | 01 | Sexual Politics | | 20080923 (BBC7) 20080924 (BBC7) 20091123 (BBC7) 20140621 (BBC7) | |The comedian has more radical advice for his fellow man - get yourself a boyfriend. With Maria McErlane. From August 1995.|The comedian has more radical advice for his fellow man - get yourself a boyfriend.|From August 1995. |
03 | 01 | Sexuality | 19950804 | 19950805 20040507 (BBC7) 20040508 (BBC7) 20050801 (BBC7) 20050802 (BBC7) 20070111 (BBC7) 20070112 (BBC7) 19960809 (R4) | ""Everyone should have to be gay for two years"".|Mark Steel returns with alternative solutions to everyday problems.|Show 1 from series 3, August 1995.|Mark Steel returns with alternative solutions to everday problems.|Mark Steel has more radical advice for his fellow man - get yourself a boyfriend.|From August 1995.|Comic Mark Steel returns for a new series, with another collection of alternative solutions to our everday problems.|This week- sexual politics.|Written and performed by Mark Steel and Pete SINCLAIR. |
03 | 02 | Charity | 19950811 | 19950812 20040514 (BBC7) 20040515 (BBC7) 20050808 (BBC7) 20050809 (BBC7) 20070118 (BBC7) 20070119 (BBC7) 20080930 (BBC7) 20081001 (BBC7) 20091130 (BBC7) 20140628 (BBC7) | |The radical comedian questions the motives behind mankind's fundraising efforts for good causes. From August 1995.|The radical comedian questions the motives behind mankind's fundraising efforts for good causes.|From August 1995.|Anybody who gives to charity should be jailed.|Mark presents a highly personal view of the motives behind fundraising and charity work.|A hard hitting comedy view of charity with comedian and journalist Mark Steel.|The comedian questions the motives behind mankind's fundraising efforts for good causes. |
03 | 03 | Crime | 19950818 | 19950819 20040521 (BBC7) 20040522 (BBC7) 20050815 (BBC7) 20050816 (BBC7) 20070125 (BBC7) 20070126 (BBC7) 20081007 (BBC7) 20081008 (BBC7) 20091207 (BBC7) 20140705 (BBC7) | |The radical comedian proposes a way of solving punishments for criminal acts, once and for all.||From August 1995.|Criminals should decide their own punishment.|(Uses some sketches from S01 E03).|Mark proposes a way of solving crime once and for all: criminals should decide their own punishment.|Controversial comic Mark Steel tackles another of our modern day social problems.|This week- crime.|Written and performed by Mark Steel and Pete SINCLAIR with Kim Wall and Maria Mcerlane.|Produced by Phil Clarke.|The radical comedian proposes a way of solving punishments for criminal acts. |
03 | 04 LAST | Immigration | 19950825 | 19960810 20040528 (BBC7) 20040529 (BBC7) 20050822 (BBC7) 20050823 (BBC7) 20070201 (BBC7) 20070202 (BBC7) 20081014 (BBC7) 20081015 (BBC7) 20091214 (BBC7) 20140712 (BBC7) | |The radical comedian proposes deportation for everyone born in England. From August 1995.|The radical comedian proposes deportation for everyone born in England.|Anyone born in England should be deported.|(paraphrasing S01 E05).|Controversial comic Mark Steel tackles another of our modern day social problems in the last of the series.|This week- immigration.|Written and performed by Mark Steel and Pete SINCLAIR with Kim Wall and Maria Mcerlane.|Mark proposes that everyone born in England is deported in an attempt to address English misery and feelings of superiority. |
04 | 01 | Religion | 19960816 | 19960817 20040604 (BBC7) 20040605 (BBC7) 20050829 (BBC7) 20050830 (BBC7) 20070208 (BBC7) 20070209 (BBC7) 20081021 (BBC7) 20081022 (BBC7) 20140830 (BBC7) | |The radical comedian proposes new ways to solve the lack of understanding between different faiths. From August 1996.|People should have to change their religion every Monday.|Mark has an ideal solution to solving the lack of understanding between religions: Make everyone adopt a new faith every Monday.|Mark has an ideal solution to solving the lack of understanding between religions.|The radical comedian proposes new ways to solve the lack of understanding between different faiths.|From August 1996. |
04 | 02 | Media | 19960823 | 19960824 20040612 (BBC7) 20050905 (BBC7) 20050906 (BBC7) 20070215 (BBC7) 20081028 (BBC7) 20081029 (BBC7) | It's 1996, Chris Evans is on Radio 1, and Mark believes the media has hit an all time low.|Here's his solution - anyone in charge of the media should be sacked after thirty minutes.|It's 1996.|Chris Evans is on Radio 1 and Mark believes the media has hit an all-time low.|Here's his solution. |
04 | 02 | The Media | | 20081028 (BBC7) 20140906 (BBC7) | |The radical comedian proposes a new way to rescue radio and telly from an all-time low. Chris Evans beware! From August 1996. |
04 | 03 | Education | 19960830 | 19960831 20040618 (BBC7) 20040619 (BBC7) 20050912 (BBC7) 20050913 (BBC7) 20070222 (BBC7) 20070223 (BBC7) 20081104 (BBC7) 20081105 BT=0330 (BBC7) 20140913 (BBC7) | |Mark proposes that nobody should go to school until they are 36. With Pete Sinclair and Maria McErlane. From August 1996.|Nobody should go to school until they are 36.|(paraphrasing S01 E04).|Mark proposes that nobody should go to school until they are 36.|From August 1996.|Episode 3 of 4. |
04 | 04 LAST | Life - Pessimism | 19960906 | 20040625 (BBC7) 20040626 (BBC7) 20050919 (BBC7) 20050920 (BBC7) 20070301 (BBC7) 20070302 (BBC7) | Pessimists should be persecuted by law.|Have we entered into an age of pessimism? Mark seems to think so.|Of course, School, the Media and Hollywood are all responsible!. |
04 | 04 LAST | Pessimism | | 20081111 (BBC7) 20140920 (BBC7) | |The radical comedian explains why life is getting harder, and proposes how we can all fight back. With Peter Sinclair and Maria McErlane. From September 1996. |