Radio Times review

Television loves birthdays and anniversaries, so how much more exciting can it get than actually having an excuse to celebrate one of its own milestones with a special season of programmes? BBC Two is 50 years old this year (surely not, doesn't she look young?) and the festivities will be sprinkled across the schedules throughout the year.

Here Dara O'Briain and Pointless's Richard Osman hosts a 50th birthday quiz where celebrities are asked questions about BBC Two stars and programmes across the years. Guests include Hugh Dennis, Hairy Biker Dave Myers and Professor Brian Cox.

Radio Times review

Sometimes this show works a sort of reverse magic and normally witty guests come across as whingeing sticks-in-the-mud. There's something about having to explain why you hate some aspect of modern life that makes everyone into a variant of Victor Meldrew if you're not careful. Tonight even the reliably droll Lee Mack teeters on the edge of curmudgeonliness as he rails against cars and kids parties, but of course he recovers his wits.

Meanwhile, Ruby Wax's mother sounds maddening, but can you really consign you own mum to Room 101? The audience sound doubtful. Most diverting part of the show: the tale of Dave Myers' alopecia. No wonder he hates wigs.

A wonderfully enjoyable edition opens with Jimmy Carr claiming that he was given coffee in his bottle as a baby and progresses through the idea that Susanna Reid may have held the Breakfast team's speed record for drinking a pint of beer ("How big are your glugs?" enquires host Rob Brydon) and that Dave Myers of The Hairy Bikers once spent Christmas locked inside a bank.

All these prompt enjoyable cross-examination but, as so often, it's David Mitchell's mock-exasperation that really lights the comic touchpaper. "We've been doing this show for a thousand years!" he wails at one point to Lee Mack. "I know everything about you, including the fact that you did not learn to drive in a hearse."