Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns

This enjoyable documentary is being repeated at 1.30am on Tuesday 22nd March.

Our dashing hero Alexander Armstrong explores the literature that inspired Michael Palin and Terry Jones's classic TV comedy Ripping Yarns, a loving parody of the Boys' Own books and magazines of their childhood. Featuring clips from Ripping Yarns, archive and interviews with experts, modern-day adventurers and Palin and Jones's own memories. In this affectionate and entertaining film Armstrong celebrates a long-lost slice of Britishness.

 Definitely worth a record if you haven't seen it before. Even if you have, frankly.