Mark Steel Solution, The

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Episode

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Episodes

Series	Episode	Title	First Broadcast	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.