Diane Morgan & Adam Curtis: Brexit, Trump & new series

The film-maker talks to the comic, best known as Philomena Cunk, about the end of the empire and the 'rigid' age of self-expression.

The Black Mirror scribe looks back in disgust at a year in the worlds of news, TV and, as a special bonus for BBC4 viewers, video games. Brooker's eternal concern that most of his fellow broadcasters are hysterical, reductive prudes won't be short of grist, as he considers coverage of the August riots, the economic apocalypse and Pippa Middleton's regal glutes. Contributing are furious comic Doug Stanhope and conceptual documentarist Adam Curtis.

As Brooker has observed in these pages, 2011 has been a grimly bumper cornucopia of events, what with Royal Weddings, the phonehacking enquiry and riots, to say nothing of Pippa Middleton's backside looming unseemly like a double moon over the media landscape. With the assistance of Doug Stanhope, Adam Curtis and Brian Limond, Brooker will be glancing back beneath arched eyebrow over the events, factual and fictional of 2011, dousing its overheated manias, controversies and moral panics with a cool and justly savage wit.

Much as we dislike the cult of Brooker (not everything he says deserves to be parroted, you middle-class gits), his onanistic obsession and the use of his name in the titles of his shows, this is probably going to be the best show of the evening.

At least, unlike his Screenwipe 'isn't Wipeout stupid?' with Charlie Brooker, Newswipe with Charlie Brooker seems to have a purpose that's slightly above pointing, laughing and making a joke about self-love or monkeys flinging excrement. It mainly seems to be 'all a bit scary', but there's always a good film from Adam Curtis, Ben Goldacre or - in this series - anything-goes Yank stand-up Doug Stanhope to help matters along. And as we hypocritically say, there's a lot of annoying rubbish on tonight.