Episode list

Angela Merkel tries to keep President Trump's attention during a video chat; an actress is encouraged to make her award-show appearance mean something; the chair of Public Works gets proactive about potentially offensive statues in London; pollsters turn to new techniques during tricky times; Theresa May preps for a Halloween party.

Clare Balding (Tracey Ullman) is in control of the BBC's holiday programming. She plays the best bits from series 1 of "Tracey Ullman's Show." Included in the special is Dame Maggie Smith's Christmas message to the nation.

Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch look to the future; Angela Merkel tries to stay strong and professional in a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron; Dame Judi Dench teaches fellow actor Mark Rylance the unexpected pleasures of being a national treasure; Tracey Ullman decides to confront a troll; the show reveals the dangers of hipster infestation.

Dame Judi Dench is finally apprehended, but will being a national treasure be enough to get her off the hook? Other sketches include a workaholic Clare Balding, Angela Merkel grieving Brexit and Nicola Sturgeon kidnapping JK Rowling.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel works on her poker face; Jerry Hall-Murdoch looks to apply financial lessons from her previous marriage to her new one; British Prime Minister Theresa May struggles to have a stern conversation with President Trump via video chat; French First Lady Brigitte Macron recalls the good old days; Camilla Parker Bowles has unexpected adventures in babysitting; contestants from "The Great British Bake Off" get serious with cake creations based on their dreams; and the show looks at the latest virtual-assistant incarnations.

Angela bunks off her EU crisis meeting for an open top bus tour of London, an art gallery opens for troubled artist Sharon Utley, Dame Maggie Smith becomes a gamer, a man reports a mugging, Nicola kidnaps Andy Murray, Kay finds her cousin.

Camilla goes shopping for jodhpurs, Kay and Mother survive a flood, The Ten Signs of Gentrification battle rap, and it's movie night at the Murdochs.

Camilla looks after Princess Charlotte, the Murdochs pose for a family photo, Nicola Sturgeon kidnaps Simon Pegg, Dame Judi Dench gets into mischief at an awards banquet.

Dame Judi Dench takes over the top deck of a bus, Dominic the App Guy celebrates a year working from the coffee shop and Kay plans to go out without her mother for the first time since she was 14.

Adele's newfound happiness is affecting her recording session, therapist Sally can't stop sharing the details of her sessions, a husband wants to trade places with his wife in prison, Nicola sings about Scottish world domination.