Saturday Review

Vicki Pepperdine, Sam Bain, David Quantick and Natalie Haynes join Tom to look back at comedy in 2012, from Peep Show to Getting On and The Thick of It

Life of Pi on the big screen, Christmas tv offerings Restless and The Girl, Strindberg's The Dance of Death and George Saunders' short stories in Tenth of December come under the critical eyes of Kathryn Hughes, Sarah Hall and Misha Glenny. Presented by Tom Sutcliffe.

Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests, writers Aminatta Forna and David Benedict and actor Kerry Shale, review The Hobbit; a new Quentin Blake exhibition; the rich history of the Pantomime Dame; Martin Crimp's play In the Republic of Happiness; and the new Barbara Kingsolver novel, Flight Behaviour.

Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh's follow-up to In Bruges; the all-women production by Phyllida Lloyd of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Donmar with Harriet Walter and Cush Jumbo; Herta Muller's novel, The Hunger Angel; a new exhibition at the Royal Academy: Constable, Turner, Gainsborough and the Making of Landscape; and "Loving Miss Hatto", a new film for television written by Victoria Wood. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Miranda Sawyer, Gillian Slovo and Cahal Dallat

Dark caravan comedy in Sightseers; Boris Godunov at the RSC; TV documentary behind the scenes of the luxury hotel, Inside Claridge's; a new furniture gallery at the V&A; and novels from Susie Boyt - "The Small Hours" - and Emma Tennant - "The Beautiful Child". With Tom Sutcliffe and guests Patrick Gale, John Mullan and Bidisha.

Tom Sutcliffe and guests Lionel Shriver, Alex Preston and Jim White discuss the week's cultural highlights including Pinero's farce The Magistrate; David Ayer's cop flick End of Watch; Michael Kimball's novel Big Ray; and two exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery: Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union and Breaking The Ice: Moscow Art, 1960s-80s; as well as TV programme The Fear.

Tom Sutcliffe and guests Boyd Tonkin, Kevin Jackson and Monique Roffey review the cultural highlights of the week including the play The Effect, with Billie Piper in the leading role.

Tom Sutcliffe and guests Tracy Chevalier, Julia Peyton-Jones and Sarfraz Manzoor review the week's cultural highlights

Tom Sutcliffe and guests Linda Grant, Ekow Eshun and Andreas Whittam Smith review the week's cultural highlights

Tom Sutcliffe and guests writers Maev Kennedy and David Aaronovitch and author Dreda Say Mitchell review the week's cultural highlights.

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests playwright Laura Wade, broadcaster John Tusa and anthropologist Kit Davis review the week's cultural highlights including Benh Zeitlin's film Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Paul Morley, John Carey and Susan Jeffreys review the week's cultural highlights including Thomas Keneally's new novel, "The Daughters of Mars".

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Deborah Bull, James Runcie and Deborah Moggach review the week's cultural highlights including Stephen Chbosky's film The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Kamila Shamsie, academic and critic John Mullan and stage designer Es Devlin review the week's cultural highlights including A Chorus of Disapproval at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests cultural historian Christopher Frayling, writer Sarfraz Manzoor and historian Kathryn Hughes review the week's cultural highlights including Andrew Dominik's film Killing Them Softly starring Brad Pitt.