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New comedies from Frankie Boyle, Bob Mortimer and Micky Flanagan and unseen interviews with First World War veterans and civilians are part of “iPlayer only” content unveiled by the BBC.

The new programmes were revealed the BBC’s hugely popular “on demand” online service was given a revamp to make it easier to use.

It comes less than a week after the broadcaster said BBC3 will be axed with the content moving to iPlayer.

The BBC is committed to dramatically boosting the amount of exclusive iPlayer programmes it commissions and today’s line-up of shows is the most ambitious yet.

As well as a total of seven comedy shorts, there will be a two new drama films called Flea and Tag and My Jihad which are now available.

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Award-winning film-maker Adam Curtis has been commissioned to create a trilogy of “radical” films about contemporary Britain called Out There, At The Mountains of Madness and Dream Baby Dream “exploring the themes of hypocrisy, deception and corruption.”

BBC Director-General Tony Hall said: “This is an exciting day for us. BBC iPlayer is really popular, and new iPlayer will be even better.

"You’ll be able to find so many more programmes you might like and I hope everyone enjoys the new design. It’s just a first step to re-inventing BBC iPlayer, the best online television service in the world.”

BBC iPlayer was launched in December 2007 and since then its app has been downloaded 28 million times. So far, more that 10 billion programmes have been watched on the service including 315 million in January this year.

Mr Hall has talked about the upgraded iPlayer offering more personalisation and being a key plank of his “My BBC” strategy, treating audiences “like owners, not just licence-fee-payers”.