Philomena Cunk searches for meaning in her latest special. 

In the past few years, we’ve seen Diane Morgan’s alter-ego Philomena Cunk tackle a variety of subjects. She’s investigated the country’s history with Cunk on Britain and the whole planet in Cunk on Earth.

Now, Philomena returns to tackle the meaning of life in her own idiosyncratic way.

Here’s what we know about Cunk on Life:

“What’s the point of it all?” is a question humans have been asking themselves since the dawn of time. But as we cling to our dying planet, working round the clock while we’re slowly being replaced by machines, now more than ever, people are desperately looking to make sense of their lives – before someone invents a computer that makes sense of it for them.

This one off special will see Philomena tackle some of the most complex concepts to have ever been discovered, including Quantum Physics, Existentialism, Nihilism, Hedonism – and at least four other isms – as well as exploring subjects from the big bang to biology, morals to meditation and art to artificial intelligence

Speaking to the BBC, the renowned filmmaker said:

“The aim of this new documentary was very straightforward. My previous documentaries, like Cunk On Britain, have taken me to some very interesting but, ultimately, very cold places, like Britain. With Cunk On Life I wanted to go to somewhere warmer. The show is all about what it means to be human – I ask important questions about the meaningless of life.

“There’s a lot in it about religion, but also quite a lot about sex. Partially because without sex they’d be no life, but mainly because no one would watch a show about religion over Christmas, so we had to throw in the sex to make people tune in.”

She also shared her New Year’s Resolutions:

“I’m vowing to try and have a Brat Winter. Also, I’m going to get my wisdom teeth removed next year. Get them frozen in case I want them when I’m older.”

And revealed her future plans:

“I’ll probably just have a sit down, eat a Ritz biscuit and listen some ambient noise for a bit until me Ocado turns up. And I’m thinking of going on tour where I lipsync to my audiobooks. Save my voice.”

Cunk on Life lands on BBC Two and the iPlayer on Monday 30th December from 9pm.