Welcome, welcome, welcome home to CAB TV! A Wednesday thrustsplosion of the highest calibre.

16:00 – Down The Line (radio)
\ First episode of the radio forerunner to Bellamy’s People. Down The Line starts out as a terrifyingly accurate parody of the cyclical, disingenuous and meaningless phone-ins that make up the entirety of LBC’s output. Played straight initially, it introduces a host of callers played by the alumni of The Fast Show and other comedy players. Hosted by Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy.

16:30 – Library mix
\ More big grooves and atmospheric library funk, this time from the Ariete label in Italy.

17:10 – Tell The Truth
\ Early Channel 4 panel game hosted by Graeme Garden. Three guests make identical claims to an outlandish fact about themselves, and the celebrity panel have to truffle out the non-bullshitter. From 1984.

17:35 – Bad Influence!
\ Andy Crane gets a MOS 6502 jammed in his meatus while Zee Wright carries out a remote drone strike from the safety of 3000 miles away.

18:00 – The Simon Day Show (radio)
\ Music hall entertainer and wartime comedy historian Tommy Cockles arrives at the Mallard Theatre to perform his act.

18:30 – FILM: Cats Of Malta (2023)
\ Sunny hour-long documentary film on the stray cat population of Malta and the locals who feed, care for and love them.

19:35 – Remote Control
\ Another episode of the UK incarnation of this MTV format – colourful pop-culture quiz show with Tony Wilson, Phil Cornwell and Frank Sidebottom.

20:00 – Building Sights
\ Short early 90s BBC2 show appraising modern British architecture – this week, the Byker Wall.

20:15 – The Thick Of It
\ Malcolm Tucker’s predecessor and nemesis Steve Fleming returns to front-line politics, causing Malcolm and DoSAC to be squeezed by his resurgent influence. Basically, the shit is about to hit the fan.

20:45 – FILM: Ghost World (2001)
\ Comedy based on the 90s comic book of the same name. Friends Enid and Rebecca are misfits facing a directionless Summer after their high school graduation. But their paths twist when Enid befriends the lonely obsessive collector Seymour.

22:45 – Phil Kay Feels – Entertaining
\ Phil Kay performs another manic semi-improvised comedy show on Channel 4 in 1997.

23:10 – Vids
\ Late-night video reviews show from the 4Later years, hosted by rampaging culture-sniffers Nigel Buckland and Stef Gardiner.

23:35 – Late Zone
\ A grab bag of Late Zone programming, selected at whim on the night.

Timings and package contents subject to a rummage