A cleaner is accidentally launched into space and a weatherman finds that he can control the weather in darkly comic tales read by Vic Reeves and Rik Mayall.

A TV talent show judge gets a taste of their own medicine and a street performer poses as a statue in order to foil an art heist in two more darkly comic tales.

Rebecca Front reads a story about a hack writer who discovers a lost Shakespeare play. Kevin Eldon then narrates the tale of an ungrateful man driven to insanity.

A student tries to convince his superstitious, elderly landlady that her beliefs are unfounded. A man tries to prevent his girlfriend discovering the CIA agent living under their house.

A couple desperate to get their 'gifted' daughter into the best local school move into a makeshift camp. In 1901, a photographer attempts to prove a deadly beast doesn't exist.

A scientist creates the perfect wife - using his dog's brain and a prisoner escapes from jail by posting herself out in two twisted tales read by Ben Miller and Sue Perkins.

When a hungover Sabine accidentally mis-translates an exchange at a diplomatic summit, she realizes she can influence world politics by being creative with her interpreting. And a woman is stranded in a lay by after breaking down on Walpurgis night - a night of evil spirits and demonic forces.

Are you sitting comfortably? Jackanory gets a reboot as famous faces read comic tales. Jack Dee and Sally Phillips narrate stories about a Twitter addict and a dead toymaker.

A frustrated writer invents an elderly relative as an excuse to get time off work so that he can start work on his novel. When the doorbell rings and he comes to face-to-face with "Aunt Janet" he discovers that his lie has come to life.

An out of work actor agrees to take part in making an advert for tea in an isolated former Soviet-bloc country. Years later he returns to the country to discover that his character Sir Slurpington-Boots has become a national treasure.

David Mitchell and Katherine Parkinson read two dark tales in which a group of party guests fear for their lives and the survivors of an earthquake contemplate cannibalism.

A man with a gift for untangling things tries to woo a princess and a wife is framed for murder by her husband in two tales narrated by Warwick Davis and Emilia Fox.

When his friend Craig is attacked by zombies, Brian swears to pick them off one by one. In the second tale a disgraced police detective thinks his Sat-Nav is possessed.

An am-dram group must keep their audience laughing when a bomb is discovered. In the second story a girl gets a job at an abattoir but can't bring herself to kill the animals.