Ali Plumb

Plunge into exciting, strange and beautiful animated worlds with Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb as he celebrates the new breed of animators whose short films include malicious toasters, cheeky Glaswegian pigeons, job-haunting ghosts and incredibly smelly fungi. Stylistically, the films include a beautiful pen and ink evocation of Manchester architecture, a super-real, digital recreation of the human body and all points between. Fanny Eaton: The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Model; Headless Population; It's Not the End of the World; It's Raining, It's Pouring; Job Haunting; Mirrors; Noise; Songs of the City; Spirit Corp.; The Gift; When the Tides Went Down; Glas & Gorm; Stinkhorn; The Last Train; Wheeze; What Is Love?

In May 2025, 100s of people gathered outside London's iconic Prince Charles Cinema to watch five Nicolas Cage lookalikes battle it out in a competition to celebrate the release of new Cage film The Surfer. A question lingered: what must it be like to look like Nicolas Cage?

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.