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From the editor

Is it just me or do we need Christmas more than ever this year? Despite everything 2019 has thrown at us, being able to take time out and enjoy all that the festive season has to offer is something to be truly cherished. To all our loyal readers, the team here at Radio Times and I would like to offer you the very warmest of Christmas wishes. This year marks the 50th anniversary of our first double issue. Looking good for 50, aren’t we? Since 1969 our logo with a topping of snow has signified the official beginning of the season. It’s true what they say, Christmas always starts with Radio Times. Maybe there are rituals that you observe as you read? Maybe you buy your copy on a certain…

From the editor

From the editor

Is it just me or do we need Christmas more than ever this year? Despite everything 2019 has thrown at us, being able to take time out and enjoy all that the festive season has to offer is something to be truly cherished. To all our loyal readers, the team here at Radio Times and I would like to offer you the very warmest of Christmas wishes. This year marks the 50th anniversary of our first double issue. Looking good for 50, aren’t we? Since 1969 our logo with a topping of snow has signified the official beginning of the season. It’s true what they say, Christmas always starts with Radio Times. Maybe there are rituals that you observe as you read? Maybe you buy your copy on a certain date,…

From the editor

Strictly blessed!

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Day 4.40pm BBC1 What’s it like dancing together on the Strictly Christmas special as a real-life couple? JOE SUGG There’s a lot more trust – and chemistry! DIANNE BUSWELL Definitely! At times last year it was like he was dancing on eggshells… When did your relationship begin? DIANNE Straight after the final. JOE It was like, “We get on well, I’m going to miss you when you’re gone – it’ll be weird not being around you.” And now here we are, a year later! Couples getting together on the show is called the “Strictly curse”, but presumably it’s no curse for you! DIANNE Definitely not! JOE The Strictly blessing, I say! Dianne’s my first girlfriend and you can watch our relationship form – even the moment we met is on camera. Everything’s been so easy…

Strictly blessed!

Strictly blessed!

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Day 4.40pm BBC1 What’s it like dancing together on the Strictly Christmas special as a real-life couple? JOE SUGG There’s a lot more trust – and chemistry! DIANNE BUSWELL Definitely! At times last year it was like he was dancing on eggshells… When did your relationship begin? DIANNE Straight after the final. JOE It was like, “We get on well, I’m going to miss you when you’re gone – it’ll be weird not being around you.” And now here we are, a year later! Couples getting together on the show is called the “Strictly curse”, but presumably it’s no curse for you! DIANNE Definitely not! JOE The Strictly blessing, I say! Dianne’s my first girlfriend and you can watch our relationship form – even the moment we…

Strictly blessed!

‘We shouldn’t actually be talking to each other…’

‘We have an older sister, younger brother relationship – with all the irritations’RUTH JONES Gavin & Stacey Christmas Day 8.30pm BBC1 IT’S JUST AFTER breakfast in Brentwood, Los Angeles, and James Corden and Ruth Jones are huddled in the very room where they wrote this year’s Gavin & Stacey Christmas special. He calls it his “front room” – “I’m just trying to hang on to my roots” – although it’s more a study, near the entry hall of his traditional, white clapboard home. It’s been almost a decade since they worked together, what with Corden hosting The Late Late Show on CBS and its Carpool Karaoke spin-off, and Jones writing bestseller Never Greener and starring in Sky 1’s comedy drama Stella (written with her husband, David Peet). But thanks to the return of Gavin…

‘We shouldn’t actually be talking to each other…’

Teatime stories

The Snail and the Whale Christmas Day 2.30pm BBC1 Mimi and the Mountain Dragon Boxing Day 3.20pm BBC1 WE LOVE OUR classy animations at Christmas and this year there are two brand-new films from our finest storytellers: both former children’s laureates, wise and witty writers who speak to the heart and imagination. They are Julia Donaldson CBE and Sir Michael Morpurgo and their stories, like all the best midwinter legends, are about journeys, courage, danger and rescue. Donaldson’s The Snail and the Whale brings alive the sweeping, romantic adventure of a seashore mollusc who dreams of travel: she gets a lift on a humpback whale and circles the world. Julia’s characters are all brave, from the mouse defying the Gruffalo to the lost twig indignantly crying out, “I’m Stick Man, that’s me!” – little creatures…

Teatime stories

‘We shouldn’t actually be talking to each other…’

‘We have an older sister, younger brother relationship – with all the irritations’RUTH JONES Gavin & Stacey Christmas Day 8.30pm BBC1 IT’S JUST AFTER breakfast in Brentwood, Los Angeles, and James Corden and Ruth Jones are huddled in the very room where they wrote this year’s Gavin & Stacey Christmas special. He calls it his “front room” – “I’m just trying to hang on to my roots” – although it’s more a study, near the entry hall of his traditional, white clapboard home. It’s been almost a decade since they worked together, what with Corden hosting The Late Late Show on CBS and its Carpool Karaoke spin-off, and Jones writing bestseller Never Greener and starring in Sky 1’s comedy drama Stella (written with her husband, David Peet). But thanks to the…

‘We shouldn’t actually be talking to each other…’

Dear Dad… and Mum

Michael Bond’s daughter Karen Jankel on… Paddington Bear Has Paddington been a lifetime companion for you? Oh, absolutely, like a sibling. I was born two months before my dad’s first book was published in 1958, so I grew up with him as part of the family and he was totally, totally real. It probably sounds a little bit crazy. Did you mind sharing “your” bear with the world? Yes and no, because the actual bear my father bought in 1956 [in Selfridges on Christmas Eve] is part of our family and quite different to the bear that everybody else knows. He inspired the stories, but the bear that lived with us, and lives with us still in fact, is a bit more sophisticated. What have you learnt from Paddington? Paddington was the voice of my father, really.…

Dear Dad… and Mum

Teatime stories

The Snail and the Whale Christmas Day 2.30pm BBC1 Mimi and the Mountain Dragon Boxing Day 3.20pm BBC1 WE LOVE OUR classy animations at Christmas and this year there are two brand-new films from our finest storytellers: both former children’s laureates, wise and witty writers who speak to the heart and imagination. They are Julia Donaldson CBE and Sir Michael Morpurgo and their stories, like all the best midwinter legends, are about journeys, courage, danger and rescue. Donaldson’s The Snail and the Whale brings alive the sweeping, romantic adventure of a seashore mollusc who dreams of travel: she gets a lift on a humpback whale and circles the world. Julia’s characters are all brave, from the mouse defying the Gruffalo to the lost twig indignantly crying out, “I’m Stick Man, that’s me!”…

Teatime stories

The lynx effect

Snow Cats and Me Sun 29 Dec 8.00pm, Mon 30 Dec 9.00pm BBC2 WHO DOESN’T LOVE a happy-ever-after story at Christmas? Well, this year, wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan has an uplifting, gift-wrapped tale for us about the pair of beautiful lynx cubs he has a protective grip of in the picture opposite. Like most stories that stir the heart, it comes with a bleak and unpromising preamble. The cubs’ parents had been caged in a Russian garage for four years. They had already produced three litters, which had been slaughtered for their fur. Weak and malnourished, they were presumed to have outlived their usefulness. But instead of destroying them, the owner handed them over to a lynx rescue project. And then the miracle happened. “They didn’t look remotely in breeding condition,” says Buchanan. “So…

The lynx effect

Dear Dad… and Mum

Michael Bond’s daughter Karen Jankel on… Paddington Bear Has Paddington been a lifetime companion for you? Oh, absolutely, like a sibling. I was born two months before my dad’s first book was published in 1958, so I grew up with him as part of the family and he was totally, totally real. It probably sounds a little bit crazy. Did you mind sharing “your” bear with the world? Yes and no, because the actual bear my father bought in 1956 [in Selfridges on Christmas Eve] is part of our family and quite different to the bear that everybody else knows. He inspired the stories, but the bear that lived with us, and lives with us still in fact, is a bit more sophisticated. What have you learnt from Paddington? Paddington…

Dear Dad… and Mum

Nature Highlights

THE LAST IGLOO Christmas Eve BBC4 Described as a “visual poem to the Inuit lifestyle”, this 90-minute piece of exquisitely made slow TV is also a lament for a landscape that’s fast being lost. The film follows East Greenlandic hunter Julius Nielsen as he ekes out an existence in the high Arctic — a world of snow and ice that is melting before his eyes. Prepare to have your heart warmed and your conscience chilled. Film-maker Christian Collerton followed 40-year-old father-of-four Julius, chronicling in deliberate and painstaking detail the life of a hunter. From fishing using nets and lures through holes cut in the sea ice to, yes, building “the last igloo” — a metaphor for global warming. Says Collerton: “It’s easy to think of climate change as a remote problem, but to the…

Nature Highlights

A Christmas Carol Sun 22 Dec 9.00pm, Mon 23 Dec 9.05pm, Christmas Eve 9.00pm BBC1 SCREEN ADAPTATIONS OF A Christmas Carol have become as familiar a Yuletide tradition as terrible cracker jokes, drinking too much eggnog and family rows. We all know the story: ruthless miser Ebenezer Scrooge’s “Bah, humbug” view of Christmas is softened by a series of visiting ghosts. Which is why Andy Serkis says that he was initially sceptical when he was approached to play the Ghost of Christmas Past in a new, three-part BBC1 adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic seasonal tale by Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders. “I have to admit,” says 55-year-old Serkis, “when I heard there was going to be another Christmas Carol, I thought, ‘Really? Do we need another one?’ But I couldn’t stop…

The lynx effect

Snow Cats and Me Sun 29 Dec 8.00pm, Mon 30 Dec 9.00pm BBC2 WHO DOESN’T LOVE a happy-ever-after story at Christmas? Well, this year, wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan has an uplifting, gift-wrapped tale for us about the pair of beautiful lynx cubs he has a protective grip of in the picture opposite. Like most stories that stir the heart, it comes with a bleak and unpromising preamble. The cubs’ parents had been caged in a Russian garage for four years. They had already produced three litters, which had been slaughtered for their fur. Weak and malnourished, they were presumed to have outlived their usefulness. But instead of destroying them, the owner handed them over to a lynx rescue project. And then the miracle happened. “They didn’t look remotely in breeding condition,”…

The lynx effect

Nature Highlights

THE LAST IGLOO Christmas Eve BBC4 Described as a “visual poem to the Inuit lifestyle”, this 90-minute piece of exquisitely made slow TV is also a lament for a landscape that’s fast being lost. The film follows East Greenlandic hunter Julius Nielsen as he ekes out an existence in the high Arctic — a world of snow and ice that is melting before his eyes. Prepare to have your heart warmed and your conscience chilled. Film-maker Christian Collerton followed 40-year-old father-of-four Julius, chronicling in deliberate and painstaking detail the life of a hunter. From fishing using nets and lures through holes cut in the sea ice to, yes, building “the last igloo” — a metaphor for global warming. Says Collerton: “It’s easy to think of climate change as a remote…

Nature Highlights

Not snowing out

Not Going Out Christmas Eve 10.00pm BBC1 On Christmas Day, will you be staying at home or going out? LEE MACK It’s just me, my wife and three children on Christmas Day. We’ll go and see my family up north just before Christmas. And then my wife’s family are coming over on the 27th. It’s the one time of year when I’m head chef and this year we’re trying to be more environmentally responsible and cut out meat completely. SALLY BRETTON My husband, three children and I will be hosting it at home this year. My mum and brother will come to us. How big do you go on gifts? Do you go out shopping and buy everything far in advance, or order online at the last minute? LEE I’m trying to stop online shopping. We…

Not snowing out

Hotline to the queen of comedy

Dame Edna Rules the Waves New Year’s Eve 9.05pm BBC1 (not Scotland) What a privilege to meet you, Dame Edna. Radio Times is a very special periodical and I’m longing to be back between its covers. Tell us about your new show. It takes place on my luxury yacht. I was out there on the ocean and suddenly a drone sailed over and it was a BBC camera. They’d found me! I’m a kind of medicine for the British people. I was on prescription, but now I can be had over the counter. Do you feel you’re an inspiration? Little Graham Norton — that boy learnt so much from me. The chair that flips back, that was my invention! You and the Queen are both on TV within a week. Have you spoken recently? She’s been on the…

Hotline to the queen of comedy

My Worzel Gummidge diary

Worzel Gummidge Boxing Day 6.20pm, Friday 27 Dec 7.00pm BBC1 SINCE I’VE BEEN an actor, helpful friends and strangers have felt obliged to suggest parts that they think I could play. It started with my sister’s idea that I should audition for Mr Muscle. Others have imagined me as various of Charles Dickens’s more odious characters: Scrooge, Fagin, Uriah Heep etc. Then there were those who suggested I take the roles that creeped them out in childhood: Catweazle, Stig of the Dump, Rentaghost’s Mr Claypole and, yes, Worzel Gummidge. Some of those parts have been wafted my way over the years and I’ve petulantly turned them down, but there was something about the Scarecrow of Scatterbrook that piqued my interest. April 2017 – falling in love It didn’t take long, after I was asked if…

My Worzel Gummidge diary

A Christmas Carol Sun 22 Dec 9.00pm, Mon 23 Dec 9.05pm, Christmas Eve 9.00pm BBC1 SCREEN ADAPTATIONS OF A Christmas Carol have become as familiar a Yuletide tradition as terrible cracker jokes, drinking too much eggnog and family rows. We all know the story: ruthless miser Ebenezer Scrooge’s “Bah, humbug” view of Christmas is softened by a series of visiting ghosts. Which is why Andy Serkis says that he was initially sceptical when he was approached to play the Ghost of Christmas Past in a new, three-part BBC1 adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic seasonal tale by Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders. “I have to admit,” says 55-year-old Serkis, “when I heard there was going to be another Christmas Carol, I thought, ‘Really? Do we need another one?’ But I couldn’t stop…

Raising the barre

Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words New Year’s Day 5.30pm BBC2 FRANCESCA HAYWARD IS truly on pointe. Not only is the Royal Ballet principal dancer starring in their upcoming film of Romeo and Juliet, she’s also in the forthcoming movie version of Cats, alongside Dame Judi Dench. And she was one of the 15 women chosen to appear on the cover of the September issue of Vogue by the Duchess of Sussex. To have achieved all this by the age of 27 is pretty spectacular, but Hayward is taking it all in her perfectly turned-out stride. She puts that down to her training at the Royal Ballet’s White Lodge school, where she enrolled at the age of 11, having been born in Nairobi to an English father and a Kenyan mother. She moved from…

Raising the barre

Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration New Year’s Day 5.45pm BBC1 I AM VERY lucky. This year I feel I have the best Christmas present I could ever hope for – although there is a risk that sounds self-congratulatory and grandiose. I assure you that it’s genuinely neither, for I’m no good at being self-congratulatory and if I ever have a flash of thinking that I’ve acted grand in any way, I go into profuse, over-the-top “British apologising”, almost scraping the floor with regret, squirming and wishing I could reduce my 6ft 1in frame to a tiny little ball and hide behind a cushion somewhere. However, paradoxically, one of the aspects of my Christmas present this year is allowing myself to move from apologetic to taking up my space confidently and becoming a…

Not snowing out

Not Going Out Christmas Eve 10.00pm BBC1 On Christmas Day, will you be staying at home or going out? LEE MACK It’s just me, my wife and three children on Christmas Day. We’ll go and see my family up north just before Christmas. And then my wife’s family are coming over on the 27th. It’s the one time of year when I’m head chef and this year we’re trying to be more environmentally responsible and cut out meat completely. SALLY BRETTON My husband, three children and I will be hosting it at home this year. My mum and brother will come to us. How big do you go on gifts? Do you go out shopping and buy everything far in advance, or order online at the last minute? LEE I’m trying…

Not snowing out

The Quiet House

THE WINTER SUN was setting, but there was just enough light left for me to read the name on the gate. The Quiet House. The agent had told me that nobody had lived here since the owner’s death, but the family, not wanting to sell it, had done some refurbishing to make it, as he said, “Not luxurious but quite comfortable”. I hoped that it was also warm because, as I stood looking at it, the darkness closed in and it was clear there would be a hard frost. I got my bags out of the car and went inside. My name is Jonathan Fenn and until recently I was a barrister in a London chambers but, after my beloved wife Mary died, I struggled for many months to make any sense of…

The Quiet House

Hotline to the queen of comedy

Dame Edna Rules the Waves New Year’s Eve 9.05pm BBC1 (not Scotland) What a privilege to meet you, Dame Edna. Radio Times is a very special periodical and I’m longing to be back between its covers. Tell us about your new show. It takes place on my luxury yacht. I was out there on the ocean and suddenly a drone sailed over and it was a BBC camera. They’d found me! I’m a kind of medicine for the British people. I was on prescription, but now I can be had over the counter. Do you feel you’re an inspiration? Little Graham Norton — that boy learnt so much from me. The chair that flips back, that was my invention! You and the Queen are both on TV within a week. Have you…

Hotline to the queen of comedy

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SUSAN HILL’S GHOST STORY — THE SMALL HAND Boxing Day Channel 5 Susan Hill’s bespoke festive tale for RT is mysteriously connected to her book The Small Hand, which has been adapted into a chilling drama starring Douglas Henshall (above). The Shetland star plays antiquarian book dealer Adam, who’s haunted by the ghost of a boy. As the visits by this sinister spectre intensify, Adam reveals a secret that has tormented him since childhood. Louise Lombard and Neve McIntosh co-star. MARTIN’S CLOSE Christmas Eve BBC4 Writer Mark Gatiss is back with another spooky story from MR James, this one starring Peter Capaldi as a man on trial for his life. BANCROFT New Year’s Day—Friday 3 January ITV Series two of the thriller, showing on three consecutive nights, sees the professional and personal lives of Detective Chief Superintendent Elizabeth…

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‘Doctor Who is about inclusion’

Doctor Who New Year’s Day 6.55pm BBC1 JODIE WHITTAKER HAS delightful upbeat energy, a run-away-with-itself positivity that bubbles out of her like she’s a living, shaken can of cola. She’s enthusiastic, funny and speaks 19 to the dozen. But can the first woman to take on the lead role in Doctor Who give me five words to describe her Doctor? No! Five is nowhere near enough. “With the Doctor, the hardest thing for me to embrace was that potential for anything being possible,” she says, “because there aren’t constraints of time period or social etiquette. So, say, when I was playing Beth Latimer in Broadchurch, season one was grief, season two was rage and season three wasn’t about her but other people. If Beth suddenly did a stand-up gig, you’d go, ‘That’s a…

‘Doctor Who is about inclusion’

My Worzel Gummidge diary

Worzel Gummidge Boxing Day 6.20pm, Friday 27 Dec 7.00pm BBC1 SINCE I’VE BEEN an actor, helpful friends and strangers have felt obliged to suggest parts that they think I could play. It started with my sister’s idea that I should audition for Mr Muscle. Others have imagined me as various of Charles Dickens’s more odious characters: Scrooge, Fagin, Uriah Heep etc. Then there were those who suggested I take the roles that creeped them out in childhood: Catweazle, Stig of the Dump, Rentaghost’s Mr Claypole and, yes, Worzel Gummidge. Some of those parts have been wafted my way over the years and I’ve petulantly turned them down, but there was something about the Scarecrow of Scatterbrook that piqued my interest. April 2017 – falling in love It didn’t take long, after…

My Worzel Gummidge diary

Memories of Dad

The Christmas Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan Sunday 22 December 9.00pm BBC2 I AM HINDU, BUT I’ve always loved Christmas. There was a big Sri Lankan community in Crawley, where I grew up, and we’d take it in turns to have people round for a huge Christmas Eve party. Mum and Dad would let us open our presents when we got back, because it was after midnight. It seemed a great idea at the time. Then you’d wake up later on Christmas Day with nothing to look forward to. There’s a lot to be said for delayed gratification! My mum would always make a brilliant Christmas lunch, with a Sri Lankan twist – spicy turkey, or brussels sprouts with chilli powder. I went veggie at 12, and she didn’t want me to miss out,…

Memories of Dad

Top Gear Nepal Special Sunday 29 December 9.00pm BBC2 What childhood present stands out? PADDY MCGUINNESS I remember the year midi hi-fis came out. We never had any money – Mum was a cleaner in a bingo hall – so I didn’t rate my chances, but she wrapped something and put it under the tree saying, “You know what this is, don’t you?’’ Every day I’d look at it and was so excited. On Christmas Day I was straight in there: I ripped the paper off and it was… a Clairol foot spa. Seven years earlier I’d come in from playing in the snow, my feet were freezing and there was an advert on telly for Clairol foot spas and I’d said, “I bet they would keep your feet warm.” Seven years later, she’d…

Out of this world!

Daisy Ridley How will you spend Christmas? We’re hoping that my elder sister can come back from Australia and we’ll all be at home. Last year it was just me, my mum and dad and my other sister, so we went to a hotel for lunch, which was quite joyous, weirdly. Any special Ridley family Christmas traditions? We always do stockings, and we open our presents in the afternoon. I’m buying us matching pyjamas! Do you go to church on Christmas Day? I love Christmas carols, and often think I should go to midnight Mass, but I’m usually too snuggly. What’s your favourite Christmas film? Love, Actually. I’ve always loved Emma Thompson. She’s the standard I’d wish to be at. Were you ever in the school Nativity play? Yes, I played one of the shepherds — I was in a…

Out of this world!

Raising the barre

Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words New Year’s Day 5.30pm BBC2 FRANCESCA HAYWARD IS truly on pointe. Not only is the Royal Ballet principal dancer starring in their upcoming film of Romeo and Juliet, she’s also in the forthcoming movie version of Cats, alongside Dame Judi Dench. And she was one of the 15 women chosen to appear on the cover of the September issue of Vogue by the Duchess of Sussex. To have achieved all this by the age of 27 is pretty spectacular, but Hayward is taking it all in her perfectly turned-out stride. She puts that down to her training at the Royal Ballet’s White Lodge school, where she enrolled at the age of 11, having been born in Nairobi to an English father and a Kenyan mother. She…

Raising the barre

Dracula New Year’s Day, Thursday 2 January, Friday 3 January 9.00pm BBC1 SOFIE GRABOL, IT could be said, was the person who kick-started Britain’s love affair with all things Danish, with her character – Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lund, and her trademark jumper – in The Killing, which was first shown in the UK in 2011. There were three critically acclaimed series, and the drama sold all over the world, but was particularly embraced by the British. Two years after it ended in 2012, Grabol, 51, made her English-language debut on stage for the National Theatre, as Margaret of Denmark in The James Plays. She was also the mayor in Fortitude, set in the Arctic, alongside Michael Gambon, Dennis Quaid and Stanley Tucci. Next year, she plays a Danish dentist (more enchanting…

In search of Christine

The Trial of Christine Keeler Sun 29 Dec, Mon 30 Dec 9.00pm BBC1 WHAT DID IT feel like to be Christine Keeler? We know what it looked like. The famous photograph of Christine straddling a chair, taken at the height of the so-called Profumo affair, is a perfect emblem of the Sixties, just as they started to swing as alluringly as her raven wing of hair. For those few months in 1963, she was the most famous woman in the world. But behind her mask of youthful beauty another woman lived, one who was manipulated, vilified and misunderstood. What did that feel like? I started writing The Trial of Christine Keeler in search of an answer to that question. Sex, race, politics, Russian espionage, fake news, privilege, the abuse of power… the ingredients…

In search of Christine

Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration New Year’s Day 5.45pm BBC1 I AM VERY lucky. This year I feel I have the best Christmas present I could ever hope for – although there is a risk that sounds self-congratulatory and grandiose. I assure you that it’s genuinely neither, for I’m no good at being self-congratulatory and if I ever have a flash of thinking that I’ve acted grand in any way, I go into profuse, over-the-top “British apologising”, almost scraping the floor with regret, squirming and wishing I could reduce my 6ft 1in frame to a tiny little ball and hide behind a cushion somewhere. However, paradoxically, one of the aspects of my Christmas present this year is allowing myself to move from apologetic to taking up my space confidently and becoming…

FREE* The Tiger Who Came to Tea Party Book

In celebration of C4’s adaptation, coming to your screens this Christmas (see page 17) we are offering our Radio Times readers a free* copy of The Tiger Who Came to Tea Party Book – a spiral bound, hardback activity book edition using Judith Kerr’s original illustrations. This special edition includes stickers, games, decorations, recipes, a poster and much more. Share your Tiger Tea Party photos with us on social media using #ChristmasRadioTimes — we will post our favourites. THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO CLAIM YOUR BOOK ▪ COLLECT FREE IN STORE Cut out the coupon below (no need to fill it out) and take it to your nearest Ryman store, or Eason store in Northern Ireland, by Friday 3 January 2020 (while stocks last). For full details visit radiotimes.com/TigerPartyBook ▪ REDEEM BY POST…

FREE* The Tiger Who Came to Tea Party Book

The Quiet House

THE WINTER SUN was setting, but there was just enough light left for me to read the name on the gate. The Quiet House. The agent had told me that nobody had lived here since the owner’s death, but the family, not wanting to sell it, had done some refurbishing to make it, as he said, “Not luxurious but quite comfortable”. I hoped that it was also warm because, as I stood looking at it, the darkness closed in and it was clear there would be a hard frost. I got my bags out of the car and went inside. My name is Jonathan Fenn and until recently I was a barrister in a London chambers but, after my beloved wife Mary died, I struggled for many months to make…

The Quiet House

A vicar’s Christmas

Three Vicars Talking Christmas Day 1.15pm Radio 4 IN MY LAST parish, in central London, we hosted more than 30 carol services in November and December, for everyone from Great Ormond Street Hospital to Goats for Sudan. After Hark the Herald, we would take up our positions in the porch to wish departing worshippers a happy Christmas. Ten thousand handshakes followed, or to put it another way, ten thousand opportunities for viruses to pass from them to me. We kept little bottles of hand sanitiser for prophylactic wiping, but, invariably, we were voiceless by Midnight Mass, and wiped out before the Queen’s Speech. In spite of this, I still love Christmas, mostly. My partner David maintains the Christmas spirit for me when pressures of work and viral load might otherwise dull it.…

A vicar’s Christmas

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SUSAN HILL’S GHOST STORY — THE SMALL HAND Boxing Day Channel 5 Susan Hill’s bespoke festive tale for RT is mysteriously connected to her book The Small Hand, which has been adapted into a chilling drama starring Douglas Henshall (above). The Shetland star plays antiquarian book dealer Adam, who’s haunted by the ghost of a boy. As the visits by this sinister spectre intensify, Adam reveals a secret that has tormented him since childhood. Louise Lombard and Neve McIntosh co-star. MARTIN’S CLOSE Christmas Eve BBC4 Writer Mark Gatiss is back with another spooky story from MR James, this one starring Peter Capaldi as a man on trial for his life. BANCROFT New Year’s Day—Friday 3 January ITV Series two of the thriller, showing on three consecutive nights, sees the professional and personal lives…

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Faith at Christmas

SONGS OF PRAISE Sunday 22 December BBC1 Aled Jones hosts The Christmas Big Sing from the Assembly Hall in Belfast. YOUNG CHORISTERS OF THE YEAR Sunday 22 December Radio 2 Eight boys and girls aged 11—17 compete for the title at the BBC Philharmonic’s studio in Manchester. BEYOND BELIEF Monday 23 December Radio 4 Writers Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Francis Spufford and Lucy Mangan discuss the Christian message behind The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. CAROLS FROM KING’S Christmas Eve BBC2 The traditional, well-loved celebration from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. (A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is on Radio 4.) THREE VICARS TALKING Christmas Day Radio 4 The Reverends Richard Coles, Kate Bottley and Giles Fraser talk shop in a candid and amusing insight into the clergy’s Christmas. CHRISTMAS MEDITATION Christmas Day Radio 4 The actor/comedian Sally Phillips reflects on the meaning of Christmas. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY’S…

‘Doctor Who is about inclusion’

Doctor Who New Year’s Day 6.55pm BBC1 JODIE WHITTAKER HAS delightful upbeat energy, a run-away-with-itself positivity that bubbles out of her like she’s a living, shaken can of cola. She’s enthusiastic, funny and speaks 19 to the dozen. But can the first woman to take on the lead role in Doctor Who give me five words to describe her Doctor? No! Five is nowhere near enough. “With the Doctor, the hardest thing for me to embrace was that potential for anything being possible,” she says, “because there aren’t constraints of time period or social etiquette. So, say, when I was playing Beth Latimer in Broadchurch, season one was grief, season two was rage and season three wasn’t about her but other people. If Beth suddenly did a stand-up gig, you’d go,…

‘Doctor Who is about inclusion’

Quiz of the year

Television ALISON GRAHAM 1 An Oscar-winning actress played a ruthless politician in a dystopian BBC1 drama. Name the actress, her character and the series. 2 In this spin-off from The Missing, Tchéky Karyo played a detective searching Amsterdam for Tom Hollander’s niece. What was it called? 3 Name the character — and the actor who played him — who made a posthumous return in the finale of Line of Duty series five. 4 Which northern seaside town lends its name to Derren Litten’s latest sitcom? 5 What does the romantic drama The Affair have in common with the upcoming Mark Gatiss/Steven Moffat adaptation of Dracula? 6 Who adapted Jane Austen’s unfinished final novel for ITV, and what was it called? 7 Name the real-life character who met a dramatic and tragic end in the last-ever series of Poldark. 8…

Quiz of the year

The BIG picture quiz

The fabulous prize for our picture quiz winner is: Blu-rays of the hit films Once upon a Time… in Hollywood, Spider-Man: Far from Home, The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Men in Black International — plus a 49in 4K UHD Smart TV with HDR, and a Blu-ray player to watch them on! To enter Find the 50 titles or events represented in the picture and send your list, along with your name, address and daytime phone number, to: Christmas 2019 Picture Quiz, PO Box 201, Leicester LE94 0AA; or enter online at radiotimes.com/picturequiz Promoter: Immediate Media Co London Ltd. Closing date: 11.59pm on Friday 10 January 2020. Entrants must be UK residents aged 16 or over. For full terms and conditions, visit radiotimes.com/picturequiz. Entrants’ data will be used in accordance with our…

The BIG picture quiz

Memories of Dad

The Christmas Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan Sunday 22 December 9.00pm BBC2 I AM HINDU, BUT I’ve always loved Christmas. There was a big Sri Lankan community in Crawley, where I grew up, and we’d take it in turns to have people round for a huge Christmas Eve party. Mum and Dad would let us open our presents when we got back, because it was after midnight. It seemed a great idea at the time. Then you’d wake up later on Christmas Day with nothing to look forward to. There’s a lot to be said for delayed gratification! My mum would always make a brilliant Christmas lunch, with a Sri Lankan twist – spicy turkey, or brussels sprouts with chilli powder. I went veggie at 12, and she didn’t want me to…

Memories of Dad

My magnificent 7

WITH GREAT SUPERPOWER comes great responsibility. I should know, blessed as I am with second sight on which films are showing on which channels over Christmas and the New Year. Just ask. I won’t mind. The spreadsheet on my computer – a colour-coded riot of Milk Tray purple, chocolate orange and prosecco pink – lists something like 2,700 films on 40-odd channels (and that’s not even including Sky/TCM). So, here’s a hack, as the young people and Jamie Oliver like to say: allow me to pick seven films that might act as an armchair roadmap. My Magnificent Seven, in fact. (The classic western is on New Year’s Day BBC2, by the way.) 1 White Christmas Mon 23 Dec 1.35pm C4 Start the festivities off with White Christmas, because you know you want to.…

My magnificent 7

Top Gear Nepal Special Sunday 29 December 9.00pm BBC2 What childhood present stands out? PADDY MCGUINNESS I remember the year midi hi-fis came out. We never had any money – Mum was a cleaner in a bingo hall – so I didn’t rate my chances, but she wrapped something and put it under the tree saying, “You know what this is, don’t you?’’ Every day I’d look at it and was so excited. On Christmas Day I was straight in there: I ripped the paper off and it was… a Clairol foot spa. Seven years earlier I’d come in from playing in the snow, my feet were freezing and there was an advert on telly for Clairol foot spas and I’d said, “I bet they would keep your feet warm.” Seven…

Out of this world!

Daisy Ridley How will you spend Christmas? We’re hoping that my elder sister can come back from Australia and we’ll all be at home. Last year it was just me, my mum and dad and my other sister, so we went to a hotel for lunch, which was quite joyous, weirdly. Any special Ridley family Christmas traditions? We always do stockings, and we open our presents in the afternoon. I’m buying us matching pyjamas! Do you go to church on Christmas Day? I love Christmas carols, and often think I should go to midnight Mass, but I’m usually too snuggly. What’s your favourite Christmas film? Love, Actually. I’ve always loved Emma Thompson. She’s the standard I’d wish to be at. Were you ever in the school Nativity play? Yes, I…

Out of this world!

It’s all for you…

IF I HAD a Christmas bauble for every time I’m asked, “How much television do you watch every day?” and “What do you do at Christmas because you’ve seen everything already?” I’d have enough to bedeck the entire sea front at Whitby, including both piers. Come to think if it, I could probably decorate the Prom at Scarborough, too. People are only being politely interested, but everyone thinks they are the first person to ask. I would love to answer a) enough to make my nose bleed andb) I hang upside down like a bat and read magazines about tractors. ‘I have watched everything. In about two days’ By the time you read this, I will have squashed many hours of television viewing into a tiny amount of time entirely for this hand-tooled…

It’s all for you…

Dracula New Year’s Day, Thursday 2 January, Friday 3 January 9.00pm BBC1 SOFIE GRABOL, IT could be said, was the person who kick-started Britain’s love affair with all things Danish, with her character – Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lund, and her trademark jumper – in The Killing, which was first shown in the UK in 2011. There were three critically acclaimed series, and the drama sold all over the world, but was particularly embraced by the British. Two years after it ended in 2012, Grabol, 51, made her English-language debut on stage for the National Theatre, as Margaret of Denmark in The James Plays. She was also the mayor in Fortitude, set in the Arctic, alongside Michael Gambon, Dennis Quaid and Stanley Tucci. Next year, she plays a Danish dentist (more enchanting…

In search of Christine

The Trial of Christine Keeler Sun 29 Dec, Mon 30 Dec 9.00pm BBC1 WHAT DID IT feel like to be Christine Keeler? We know what it looked like. The famous photograph of Christine straddling a chair, taken at the height of the so-called Profumo affair, is a perfect emblem of the Sixties, just as they started to swing as alluringly as her raven wing of hair. For those few months in 1963, she was the most famous woman in the world. But behind her mask of youthful beauty another woman lived, one who was manipulated, vilified and misunderstood. What did that feel like? I started writing The Trial of Christine Keeler in search of an answer to that question. Sex, race, politics, Russian espionage, fake news, privilege, the abuse of power……

In search of Christine

Netflix HUGE NEW DRAMA 1 The Witcher Netflix Missing Game of Thrones? This big-budget fantasy saga ought to sate your desire for spectacular sieges, magic and swords dipped in blood. Henry Cavill is the wise-cracking Geralt of Rivia, a monster-slayer for hire who’s about to meet a bigger destiny. Available from 20 December MORE GUILTY PLEASURE 2 You Netflix A drama that was a cult hit when its first series dropped last year, even if some of us were watching in spite of ourselves as a lurid saga about a murderous stalker got more and more bonkers. Now Joe (Penn Badgley) has moved to LA and, uh-oh, he’s found another pretty young woman to obsess over. Series two from Boxing Day A FAMILY ADVENTURE 3 Lost in Space Netflix If your kids are junior-school age or above, the whole family can enjoy this remake…

SATURDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY Michael McIntyre’s Big Show 8.10pm or 8.15pm* BBC1 ENTERTAINMENT The format may not be exactly groundbreaking, but its enjoyable mix of conventional family entertainment, surprises, emotional moments and occasionally surreal comedy makes this the perfect way to kick off the festive fortnight. It’s no wonder that it was the most watched programme on Christmas Day last year. In 2018, McIntyre gave an audience member the best Christmas present ever, when he was invited to sing and dance with his idol, Kylie Minogue. This time, it’s Robbie Williams who gets some of the audience up on the stage of the London Palladium to sing with him before performing Winter Wonderland. Handing over his mobile for the Send to All section is Ian Wright, who says he isn’t nervous although the levels…

SATURDAY Choices

FREE* The Tiger Who Came to Tea Party Book

In celebration of C4’s adaptation, coming to your screens this Christmas (see page 17) we are offering our Radio Times readers a free* copy of The Tiger Who Came to Tea Party Book – a spiral bound, hardback activity book edition using Judith Kerr’s original illustrations. This special edition includes stickers, games, decorations, recipes, a poster and much more. Share your Tiger Tea Party photos with us on social media using #ChristmasRadioTimes — we will post our favourites. THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO CLAIM YOUR BOOK ▪ COLLECT FREE IN STORE Cut out the coupon below (no need to fill it out) and take it to your nearest Ryman store, or Eason store in Northern Ireland, by Friday 3 January 2020 (while stocks last). For full details visit radiotimes.com/TigerPartyBook ▪…

FREE* The Tiger Who Came to Tea Party Book

Children’s Choices

Moominvalley 1.00pm, 1.30pm Sky 1 Moomintroll, Sniff, Snufkin and Little My are back for a second series of the beautifully rendered TV version of Tove Jansson’s popular books. Kind, curious Moomintroll is off on another set of adventures that will help him to become all grown up: three today, with two more completing a cute weekend tomorrow. Thomas and Friends 6.55am Channel 5 Our best engine friend is in foreign climes for this feature-length episode: Thomas has got himself a new job on the railways in Italy. He soon makes a friend, a racy little green engine called Gina, but at first he’s not keen to take her local knowledge on board. As always with Thomas and his friends, such naughtiness soon leads to a lesson learned the hard way. Children’s Choices by Jack Seale and…

Children’s Choices

A vicar’s Christmas

Three Vicars Talking Christmas Day 1.15pm Radio 4 IN MY LAST parish, in central London, we hosted more than 30 carol services in November and December, for everyone from Great Ormond Street Hospital to Goats for Sudan. After Hark the Herald, we would take up our positions in the porch to wish departing worshippers a happy Christmas. Ten thousand handshakes followed, or to put it another way, ten thousand opportunities for viruses to pass from them to me. We kept little bottles of hand sanitiser for prophylactic wiping, but, invariably, we were voiceless by Midnight Mass, and wiped out before the Queen’s Speech. In spite of this, I still love Christmas, mostly. My partner David maintains the Christmas spirit for me when pressures of work and viral load might otherwise dull it.…

A vicar’s Christmas

PICK OF THE DAY A Christmas Carol 9.00pm BBC1 DRAMA New series Don’t come to this expecting a rosy fable with Dickensian trimmings or you’re in for a shock. Steven Knight (creator of Peaky Blinders, bear in mind) has conjured up a darkly reimagined, no-punches-pulled version of the great Christmas story, and although it won’t be for everyone (and certainly not for kids), it has an icy cutting edge. Guy Pearce is terrific as our anti-Santa. His Ebenezer Scrooge is a soulless husk of a businessman in Victorian London who quietly despises Christmas fripperies and makes hardworking clerk Bob Cratchit’s life a misery. The workplace scenes between Scrooge and Bob (Joe Alwyn) have a nice low-key tension: the plot never advances far but boy, do we lap up the atmosphere. They are intercut with scenes…

Faith at Christmas

SONGS OF PRAISE Sunday 22 December BBC1 Aled Jones hosts The Christmas Big Sing from the Assembly Hall in Belfast. YOUNG CHORISTERS OF THE YEAR Sunday 22 December Radio 2 Eight boys and girls aged 11—17 compete for the title at the BBC Philharmonic’s studio in Manchester. BEYOND BELIEF Monday 23 December Radio 4 Writers Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Francis Spufford and Lucy Mangan discuss the Christian message behind The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. CAROLS FROM KING’S Christmas Eve BBC2 The traditional, well-loved celebration from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. (A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is on Radio 4.) THREE VICARS TALKING Christmas Day Radio 4 The Reverends Richard Coles, Kate Bottley and Giles Fraser talk shop in a candid and amusing insight into the clergy’s Christmas. CHRISTMAS MEDITATION…

PICK OF THE DAY Hugh Grant: a Life on Screen 9.00pm BBC2 DOCUMENTARY By his own admission, Hugh Grant made a lot of “strange, Euro-pudding [TV] series” after his big break in the 1987 Merchant-Ivory film Maurice and his even bigger break in Four Weddings and a Funeral. “I accepted everything, even if it was crap.” Grant is a brilliant, drily witty guide to his own life in this hour-long canter through his career. From his school days, when he was “badly behaved and pretentious” (he played Brigitta von Trapp in his all-boys’ school production of The Sound of Music), to blockbusting stardom. Richard Curtis says he didn’t initially want to cast Grant as his bumbling Four Weddings hero Charles because Grant was “too posh and too handsome” and clearly would have no trouble getting…

PICK OF THE DAY Martin’s Close 10.00pm BBC4 DRAMA A Ghost Story for Christmas was a cosy Christmas Eve (or thereabouts) tradition during the 1970s, with adaptations mainly of stories by the master himself, MR James. Here’s hoping the delicious delights of a good scare on a dark winter night will be revived by Mark Gatiss’s version of James’s short story, Martin’s Close. It’s a brief slice of creepiness, but it packs a few shudders and oozes an atmosphere of pulsing fear as the young, well-to-do John Martin (Wilf Scolding) faces trial for murder in 1684, in front of infamous real-life gibbet-happy “hanging” judge, George Jeffreys. Peter Capaldi is prosecutor Dolben, who outlines a terrible tale of murder by an entitled young man who clearly thought he could trifle with the affections of a simple-minded…

PICK OF THE DAY Call the Midwife 7.00pm BBC1 DRAMA There’s snow on the mountains, deer on the hillsides and bagpipes on the soundtrack… We are clearly not in Poplar any more. The Nonnatus House midwives have forsaken the East End at Christmas for the Outer Hebrides. This is entirely the doing of Mother Mildred (Miriam Margolyes, veering rather splendidly into Lady Whiteadder when she gets riled), who believes she’s been called by God to set up a clinic in this remote part of Britain. As Trixie packs “one all-purpose cocktail frock in case of emergency”, Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) bridles at being left behind. Once the little group arrives, they’re treated warmly enough by the locals, though their accommodation is chilly and unwelcoming. But, of course, this feature-length episode of the Christmas Day…

Quiz of the year

Television ALISON GRAHAM 1 An Oscar-winning actress played a ruthless politician in a dystopian BBC1 drama. Name the actress, her character and the series. 2 In this spin-off from The Missing, Tchéky Karyo played a detective searching Amsterdam for Tom Hollander’s niece. What was it called? 3 Name the character — and the actor who played him — who made a posthumous return in the finale of Line of Duty series five. 4 Which northern seaside town lends its name to Derren Litten’s latest sitcom? 5 What does the romantic drama The Affair have in common with the upcoming Mark Gatiss/Steven Moffat adaptation of Dracula? 6 Who adapted Jane Austen’s unfinished final novel for ITV, and what was it called? 7 Name the real-life character who met a dramatic and…

Quiz of the year

The BIG picture quiz

The fabulous prize for our picture quiz winner is: Blu-rays of the hit films Once upon a Time… in Hollywood, Spider-Man: Far from Home, The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Men in Black International — plus a 49in 4K UHD Smart TV with HDR, and a Blu-ray player to watch them on! To enter Find the 50 titles or events represented in the picture and send your list, along with your name, address and daytime phone number, to: Christmas 2019 Picture Quiz, PO Box 201, Leicester LE94 0AA; or enter online at radiotimes.com/picturequiz Promoter: Immediate Media Co London Ltd. Closing date: 11.59pm on Friday 10 January 2020. Entrants must be UK residents aged 16 or over. For full terms and conditions, visit radiotimes.com/picturequiz. Entrants’ data will be used in accordance…

The BIG picture quiz

PICK OF THE DAY Worzel Gummidge 6.20pm BBC1 DRAMA Nearly 40 years after Jon Pertwee’s bum-swizzling children’s adventures, Mackenzie Crook steps into Worzel’s straw-strewn trousers with aplomb and buckets of likeability. It’s much less silly than before, with more magic and mystery as our floppy-hatted hero is tasked with restoring out-of-kilter seasons to “Albion”. Crook clearly relishes this kind of mythic storytelling, but it’s properly modern, too. The children, John and Susan, are mixed-race foster-care siblings lodging at Scatterbrook Farm, and they first glimpse our hero when they film him on their iPhone. After a slow start, they prove a fantastically winning pair. There’s an element of didactic BBC finger-wagging about plastic bags and the environment, of course, and Worzel’s new appearance (including spiny roots for fingers) may slightly alarm very young children. But…

PICK OF THE DAY A Question of Sport at 50 8.30pm BBC1 (Wales: 9pm; Scotland: 11pm) DOCUMENTARY The beauty of A Question of Sport — which celebrates its 50th anniversary on 5 January — is that the format has remained largely unchanged, resulting in a multigenerational appeal. With Sue Barker at the helm since 1997, the modern era of the sporting quiz show has seen a rotating cast of cheerfully competitive captains, currently Matt Dawson (since 2004) and Phil Tufnell (since 2008). It’s easy watching, in the best way possible, like a sillier and arguably more democratic University Challenge. Here, the great and the good of the sporting world pay tribute, including Princess Anne, who has been both a guest and a memorable answer: in 1987, during a picture round, Emlyn Hughes misidentified the…

SATURDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY Wisting 9.00pm, 9.45pm BBC4 DRAMA New series William Wisting (Sven Nordin), haunted by the death of his wife, is a well-meaning detective who hulks around the snow in the Norwegian town of Larvik, looking a bit like Burt Lancaster and trying to ensure his grown-up kids don’t hate him because he’s Devoted to His Job. Actually, Wisting is a welcome addition to chilly winter nights on BBC4, though the story might be formulaic… a serial killer has been murdering young, attractive, blonde women after keeping them prisoner in wells. But the bleak, snowy setting gives the drama edge when a body is found in a field of Christmas trees. As the festive celebrations hit their stride, two FBI agents (Carrie-Anne Moss and Richie Campbell) arrive to investigate the victim’s possible links…

SATURDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY The Trial of Christine Keeler 9.00pm BBC1 DRAMA New series I’m surprised it’s taken television so long to dramatise one of the biggest, most seismic of all British political scandals, the 1960s Profumo affair. It still encompasses the kind of contemporary relevance so beloved of modern dramas — class, money, sex and race. Secretary of State for War in the Harold Macmillan government, John Profumo (Ben Miles), is a suave former Harrow and Oxford University chap with a distinguished military record, who’s looked upon as a potential prime minister. He also bathes in the reflected glamour of his film star wife Valerie Hobson (Emilia Fox). But he has a fondness for young women and a fateful meeting with 19-year-old showgirl Christine Keeler (Sophie Cookson) unleashes catastrophe. Scriptwriter Amanda Coe has done…

My magnificent 7

WITH GREAT SUPERPOWER comes great responsibility. I should know, blessed as I am with second sight on which films are showing on which channels over Christmas and the New Year. Just ask. I won’t mind. The spreadsheet on my computer – a colour-coded riot of Milk Tray purple, chocolate orange and prosecco pink – lists something like 2,700 films on 40-odd channels (and that’s not even including Sky/TCM). So, here’s a hack, as the young people and Jamie Oliver like to say: allow me to pick seven films that might act as an armchair roadmap. My Magnificent Seven, in fact. (The classic western is on New Year’s Day BBC2, by the way.) 1 White Christmas Mon 23 Dec 1.35pm C4 Start the festivities off with White Christmas, because you know…

My magnificent 7

PICK OF THE DAY Snow Animals 7.00pm BBC1 NATURE Snoozing your way through the winter months snuggled up in a cosy nest, waking up every couple of days to dip into your stash of nuts before going back to sleep: being a chipmunk doesn’t too sound bad, does it? A warmly wrapped-up Liz Bonnin is looking at how animals cope with the toughest time of the year, seeing what clever strategies they’ve evolved and how they change their survival tactics as the season ends. It’s a perfect subject for Christmas viewing with bone-chilling snowy landscapes, icicle-festooned trees and white-coated polar bears, creatures that somehow epitomise winter. But there are also bobcats, diving headfirst into snow drifts to catch their prey, emperor penguins who’ve turned huddling together for warmth into an art form and the…

New Year’s Eve

PICK OF THE DAY New Year Celebrations ENTERTAINMENT Staying in tonight? There’s plenty to entertain you, with the main attraction being Jools’s Annual Hootenanny (11.15pm BBC2). Jools Holland’s musical guests include Brittany Howard, La Roux, Rick Astley, Tom Walker, YolanDa Brown, Stereophonics, Eddi Reader… and Stormzy, an impressive booking that might challenge the usual format of convincing people to sing big-band classics with Jools and the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. On BBC1, there’s The Graham Norton Show (10.20pm), featuring Stephen Graham, Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse and the pure chat-show gold that is Tom Hanks. That’s followed by the now-traditional gig, delivered this year by Craig David (11.25pm), ahead of Big Ben’s bongs and the Thames-side fireworks. In Scotland, your Hogmanay (11.30pm) hosts are Susan Calman and Des Clarke. For something a bit cooler/funnier, head…

New Year’s Day

PICK OF THE DAY Doctor Who 6.55pm BBC1 DRAMA What’s this? The Doctor, having cast off her trademark rainbow T-shirt, has swapped it for a tuxedo under her long grey coat. Dastardly villains have a plot against the intelligence services, while attacks around the globe put Earth’s security in danger. In the planet’s time of greatest need, there’s only one person a plummy-voiced spymaster called C can turn to. “The name’s Doctor… the Doctor.” Yes, this is Who’s riff on James Bond — though if the episode title (Spyfall) hasn’t tipped you off, you’re probably not cut out to be 007 yourself. Written by showrunner Chris Chibnall and with starry guest turns from Stephen Fry (as the aforementioned spy boss, in brilliant casting) and Lenny Henry, this is an explosive start to Jodie Whittaker’s second series.…

THURSDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY Best Home Cook 8.00pm BBC1 FOOD You may remember this from a couple of years ago, when it had Britain’s in the title. It’s a very serviceable cooking/talent show that suffers only slightly from feeling like a stir-fry made with leftovers from other formats. But it’s a tasty stir-fry, with Mary Berry and Claudia Winkleman among the stirrers. They’re joined by Chris Bavin (from Eat Well for Less?) and new judge Angela Hartnett, who brings a little Michelin-starred-cheffy grit to what might otherwise be all a bit too nice. Ten ordinary cooks compete in challenges to make, say, their ultimate pasta dinner, or the best dish they can rustle up using pears. It’s not as fancy as MasterChef or as joyous as Bake Off, but there are the usual dilemmas (play…

THURSDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss 10.35pm BBC2 ARTS As the final episode of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s version of Dracula devours BBC1 (9pm), Gatiss presents an entertaining documentary about the origins of the Count and examines why he’s become such an unmistakeable figure in popular culture. There are some thrilling moments — Gatiss is given permission to look at Bram Stoker’s notes and workings for his novel, now kept at a Philadelphia museum, including a goose-bumpy page where Stoker is clearly trying out the name “Dracula” for size, complete with crossings-out. And Gatiss meets seven of Dracula’s “brides”, including Joanna Lumley, from the richly gory Hammer Horror days, who are united in their fond memories of Christopher Lee. He also visits Whitby Abbey, which plays a huge part…

SEASONS GREETINGS, WHETHER you’re reading this clad in a comely elf suit or muttering “Bah, humbug”. Rest assured that BBC and commercial radio have something to suit every taste. Comedy is king (or queen), with plenty to make us laugh. My own top pick is Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show! (Christmas Day 11.30am Radio 4), where the verbally confused Count morphs Good King Wenceslas into Good King Senseless. Another old favourite has the blues in The Shuttleworths (Sun 22 Dec 7.15pm Radio 4) as John’s wife Mary cancels Christmas, gets rid of the tree and moves his beloved organ to the garage. On 5 Live, Nihal Arthanayake replays clips from his funniest interviews – including Lenny Henry and Dawn French – in Headliners (Christmas Day 10.30pm). And comedians from around the…

Greta’s soapbox

Greta Thunberg is a busy teenager. She’s world famous. She has a message she wants to impart. She has the ear of statesmen and women. So this Christmas, where does she turn to ice the cake, as it were: to put the angel on top of the tree? Only one place. She is a Radio 4 Today programme guest editor. It’s like winning a Nobel Prize, only with no prize money, worse coffee and a 4am start. Still, it gets you maximum publicity at a moment of minimal news. Is she going to arrive in London by hot-air balloon? Or are we sailing to her? You’ll have to tune in to find out. But the opportunity for that publicity is hard to turn down. It’s a soapbox from which you can…

Greta’s soapbox

It’s all for you…

IF I HAD a Christmas bauble for every time I’m asked, “How much television do you watch every day?” and “What do you do at Christmas because you’ve seen everything already?” I’d have enough to bedeck the entire sea front at Whitby, including both piers. Come to think if it, I could probably decorate the Prom at Scarborough, too. People are only being politely interested, but everyone thinks they are the first person to ask. I would love to answer a) enough to make my nose bleed andb) I hang upside down like a bat and read magazines about tractors. ‘I have watched everything. In about two days’ By the time you read this, I will have squashed many hours of television viewing into a tiny amount of time entirely…

It’s all for you…

Netflix HUGE NEW DRAMA 1 The Witcher Netflix Missing Game of Thrones? This big-budget fantasy saga ought to sate your desire for spectacular sieges, magic and swords dipped in blood. Henry Cavill is the wise-cracking Geralt of Rivia, a monster-slayer for hire who’s about to meet a bigger destiny. Available from 20 December MORE GUILTY PLEASURE 2 You Netflix A drama that was a cult hit when its first series dropped last year, even if some of us were watching in spite of ourselves as a lurid saga about a murderous stalker got more and more bonkers. Now Joe (Penn Badgley) has moved to LA and, uh-oh, he’s found another pretty young woman to obsess over. Series two from Boxing Day A FAMILY ADVENTURE 3 Lost in Space Netflix If…

SATURDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY Michael McIntyre’s Big Show 8.10pm or 8.15pm* BBC1 ENTERTAINMENT The format may not be exactly groundbreaking, but its enjoyable mix of conventional family entertainment, surprises, emotional moments and occasionally surreal comedy makes this the perfect way to kick off the festive fortnight. It’s no wonder that it was the most watched programme on Christmas Day last year. In 2018, McIntyre gave an audience member the best Christmas present ever, when he was invited to sing and dance with his idol, Kylie Minogue. This time, it’s Robbie Williams who gets some of the audience up on the stage of the London Palladium to sing with him before performing Winter Wonderland. Handing over his mobile for the Send to All section is Ian Wright, who says he isn’t nervous…

SATURDAY Choices

Children’s Choices

Moominvalley 1.00pm, 1.30pm Sky 1 Moomintroll, Sniff, Snufkin and Little My are back for a second series of the beautifully rendered TV version of Tove Jansson’s popular books. Kind, curious Moomintroll is off on another set of adventures that will help him to become all grown up: three today, with two more completing a cute weekend tomorrow. Thomas and Friends 6.55am Channel 5 Our best engine friend is in foreign climes for this feature-length episode: Thomas has got himself a new job on the railways in Italy. He soon makes a friend, a racy little green engine called Gina, but at first he’s not keen to take her local knowledge on board. As always with Thomas and his friends, such naughtiness soon leads to a lesson learned the hard way. Children’s Choices…

Children’s Choices

PICK OF THE DAY A Christmas Carol 9.00pm BBC1 DRAMA New series Don’t come to this expecting a rosy fable with Dickensian trimmings or you’re in for a shock. Steven Knight (creator of Peaky Blinders, bear in mind) has conjured up a darkly reimagined, no-punches-pulled version of the great Christmas story, and although it won’t be for everyone (and certainly not for kids), it has an icy cutting edge. Guy Pearce is terrific as our anti-Santa. His Ebenezer Scrooge is a soulless husk of a businessman in Victorian London who quietly despises Christmas fripperies and makes hardworking clerk Bob Cratchit’s life a misery. The workplace scenes between Scrooge and Bob (Joe Alwyn) have a nice low-key tension: the plot never advances far but boy, do we lap up the atmosphere. They…

PICK OF THE DAY Hugh Grant: a Life on Screen 9.00pm BBC2 DOCUMENTARY By his own admission, Hugh Grant made a lot of “strange, Euro-pudding [TV] series” after his big break in the 1987 Merchant-Ivory film Maurice and his even bigger break in Four Weddings and a Funeral. “I accepted everything, even if it was crap.” Grant is a brilliant, drily witty guide to his own life in this hour-long canter through his career. From his school days, when he was “badly behaved and pretentious” (he played Brigitta von Trapp in his all-boys’ school production of The Sound of Music), to blockbusting stardom. Richard Curtis says he didn’t initially want to cast Grant as his bumbling Four Weddings hero Charles because Grant was “too posh and too handsome” and clearly…

PICK OF THE DAY Martin’s Close 10.00pm BBC4 DRAMA A Ghost Story for Christmas was a cosy Christmas Eve (or thereabouts) tradition during the 1970s, with adaptations mainly of stories by the master himself, MR James. Here’s hoping the delicious delights of a good scare on a dark winter night will be revived by Mark Gatiss’s version of James’s short story, Martin’s Close. It’s a brief slice of creepiness, but it packs a few shudders and oozes an atmosphere of pulsing fear as the young, well-to-do John Martin (Wilf Scolding) faces trial for murder in 1684, in front of infamous real-life gibbet-happy “hanging” judge, George Jeffreys. Peter Capaldi is prosecutor Dolben, who outlines a terrible tale of murder by an entitled young man who clearly thought he could trifle with the…

PICK OF THE DAY Call the Midwife 7.00pm BBC1 DRAMA There’s snow on the mountains, deer on the hillsides and bagpipes on the soundtrack… We are clearly not in Poplar any more. The Nonnatus House midwives have forsaken the East End at Christmas for the Outer Hebrides. This is entirely the doing of Mother Mildred (Miriam Margolyes, veering rather splendidly into Lady Whiteadder when she gets riled), who believes she’s been called by God to set up a clinic in this remote part of Britain. As Trixie packs “one all-purpose cocktail frock in case of emergency”, Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) bridles at being left behind. Once the little group arrives, they’re treated warmly enough by the locals, though their accommodation is chilly and unwelcoming. But, of course, this feature-length episode…

Your Christmas Puzzles

Countdown with Rachel Riley Using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, try to get as close to the target number as possible in 30 seconds. You can use each of the six numbers only once, but you don’t have to use them all. Solution, see page 287 Super Sudoku 734 How to play Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Difficulty: 15/20 SUDOKU NO 733 SOLUTION Solution in the next issue of RT The Enigma Code Can you crack the Enigma code? Each grid number represents a letter. Every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letters — below the main grid — to start. Difficulty: 9/20 Target time: 18 minutes Solution, see page 287 Only Connect with Victoria Coren Mitchell The connecting wall from BBC2’s Only Connect combines general…

Your Christmas Puzzles

PICK OF THE DAY Worzel Gummidge 6.20pm BBC1 DRAMA Nearly 40 years after Jon Pertwee’s bum-swizzling children’s adventures, Mackenzie Crook steps into Worzel’s straw-strewn trousers with aplomb and buckets of likeability. It’s much less silly than before, with more magic and mystery as our floppy-hatted hero is tasked with restoring out-of-kilter seasons to “Albion”. Crook clearly relishes this kind of mythic storytelling, but it’s properly modern, too. The children, John and Susan, are mixed-race foster-care siblings lodging at Scatterbrook Farm, and they first glimpse our hero when they film him on their iPhone. After a slow start, they prove a fantastically winning pair. There’s an element of didactic BBC finger-wagging about plastic bags and the environment, of course, and Worzel’s new appearance (including spiny roots for fingers) may slightly alarm very…

PICK OF THE DAY A Question of Sport at 50 8.30pm BBC1 (Wales: 9pm; Scotland: 11pm) DOCUMENTARY The beauty of A Question of Sport — which celebrates its 50th anniversary on 5 January — is that the format has remained largely unchanged, resulting in a multigenerational appeal. With Sue Barker at the helm since 1997, the modern era of the sporting quiz show has seen a rotating cast of cheerfully competitive captains, currently Matt Dawson (since 2004) and Phil Tufnell (since 2008). It’s easy watching, in the best way possible, like a sillier and arguably more democratic University Challenge. Here, the great and the good of the sporting world pay tribute, including Princess Anne, who has been both a guest and a memorable answer: in 1987, during a picture round, Emlyn Hughes…

Your Christmas Puzzles

Three readers will each win Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700* (worth £349.95) delivering everything you’d expect from Bose. You’ll be able to take a phone call with a built-in microphone for voice pickup. There’s Bose AR — sensors that can offer you audio content tailored to what you’re doing — all with easy to touch controls. Enter at radiotimes.com/xmascrossword or post the completed puzzle to the address below. Wordfinder Find the name of the show in the shaded squares to win the prize below. Easy clues Just for fun! * AVAILABLEINSILVER ORBLACK Christmas Prize Crossword 2019 Cut out or copy this form. Closing date: 11.59pm 10 January 2020. Solution published in RT dated 1 February 2020. Send to Radio Times Prize Crossword, week 52 2019, PO Box 501, Leicester LE940 AA Or enter…

Your Christmas Puzzles

‘I once drank 17 sherries’

You’re looking very twinkly, Miriam – are you the true spirit of Christmas? I’m a Jewish lesbian who hates Christmas, what am I doing playing a nun in the most-viewed programme on British television on Christmas Day? Something over six million people watch Call the Midwife – it’s part of people’s Christmas and as I’m in this episode I might have to make it part of mine. Six million! You’re more important than the Queen’s Speech… Don’t be absurd! Wash your mouth out, that’s rubbish. Did you enjoy making the Call the Midwife Christmas special in the Hebrides? It’s the most beautiful place I have ever been, despite the appalling weather. We spent most of our time freezing and soaked to the skin with our wimples dripping. Have you ever had a dripping wimple? It’s…

‘I once drank 17 sherries’

SATURDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY Wisting 9.00pm, 9.45pm BBC4 DRAMA New series William Wisting (Sven Nordin), haunted by the death of his wife, is a well-meaning detective who hulks around the snow in the Norwegian town of Larvik, looking a bit like Burt Lancaster and trying to ensure his grown-up kids don’t hate him because he’s Devoted to His Job. Actually, Wisting is a welcome addition to chilly winter nights on BBC4, though the story might be formulaic… a serial killer has been murdering young, attractive, blonde women after keeping them prisoner in wells. But the bleak, snowy setting gives the drama edge when a body is found in a field of Christmas trees. As the festive celebrations hit their stride, two FBI agents (Carrie-Anne Moss and Richie Campbell) arrive to investigate…

SATURDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY The Trial of Christine Keeler 9.00pm BBC1 DRAMA New series I’m surprised it’s taken television so long to dramatise one of the biggest, most seismic of all British political scandals, the 1960s Profumo affair. It still encompasses the kind of contemporary relevance so beloved of modern dramas — class, money, sex and race. Secretary of State for War in the Harold Macmillan government, John Profumo (Ben Miles), is a suave former Harrow and Oxford University chap with a distinguished military record, who’s looked upon as a potential prime minister. He also bathes in the reflected glamour of his film star wife Valerie Hobson (Emilia Fox). But he has a fondness for young women and a fateful meeting with 19-year-old showgirl Christine Keeler (Sophie Cookson) unleashes catastrophe. Scriptwriter…

PICK OF THE DAY Snow Animals 7.00pm BBC1 NATURE Snoozing your way through the winter months snuggled up in a cosy nest, waking up every couple of days to dip into your stash of nuts before going back to sleep: being a chipmunk doesn’t too sound bad, does it? A warmly wrapped-up Liz Bonnin is looking at how animals cope with the toughest time of the year, seeing what clever strategies they’ve evolved and how they change their survival tactics as the season ends. It’s a perfect subject for Christmas viewing with bone-chilling snowy landscapes, icicle-festooned trees and white-coated polar bears, creatures that somehow epitomise winter. But there are also bobcats, diving headfirst into snow drifts to catch their prey, emperor penguins who’ve turned huddling together for warmth into an art…

New Year’s Eve

PICK OF THE DAY New Year Celebrations ENTERTAINMENT Staying in tonight? There’s plenty to entertain you, with the main attraction being Jools’s Annual Hootenanny (11.15pm BBC2). Jools Holland’s musical guests include Brittany Howard, La Roux, Rick Astley, Tom Walker, YolanDa Brown, Stereophonics, Eddi Reader… and Stormzy, an impressive booking that might challenge the usual format of convincing people to sing big-band classics with Jools and the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. On BBC1, there’s The Graham Norton Show (10.20pm), featuring Stephen Graham, Strictly judge Motsi Mabuse and the pure chat-show gold that is Tom Hanks. That’s followed by the now-traditional gig, delivered this year by Craig David (11.25pm), ahead of Big Ben’s bongs and the Thames-side fireworks. In Scotland, your Hogmanay (11.30pm) hosts are Susan Calman and Des Clarke. For something…

New Year’s Day

PICK OF THE DAY Doctor Who 6.55pm BBC1 DRAMA What’s this? The Doctor, having cast off her trademark rainbow T-shirt, has swapped it for a tuxedo under her long grey coat. Dastardly villains have a plot against the intelligence services, while attacks around the globe put Earth’s security in danger. In the planet’s time of greatest need, there’s only one person a plummy-voiced spymaster called C can turn to. “The name’s Doctor… the Doctor.” Yes, this is Who’s riff on James Bond — though if the episode title (Spyfall) hasn’t tipped you off, you’re probably not cut out to be 007 yourself. Written by showrunner Chris Chibnall and with starry guest turns from Stephen Fry (as the aforementioned spy boss, in brilliant casting) and Lenny Henry, this is an explosive start…

THURSDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY Best Home Cook 8.00pm BBC1 FOOD You may remember this from a couple of years ago, when it had Britain’s in the title. It’s a very serviceable cooking/talent show that suffers only slightly from feeling like a stir-fry made with leftovers from other formats. But it’s a tasty stir-fry, with Mary Berry and Claudia Winkleman among the stirrers. They’re joined by Chris Bavin (from Eat Well for Less?) and new judge Angela Hartnett, who brings a little Michelin-starred-cheffy grit to what might otherwise be all a bit too nice. Ten ordinary cooks compete in challenges to make, say, their ultimate pasta dinner, or the best dish they can rustle up using pears. It’s not as fancy as MasterChef or as joyous as Bake Off, but there are…

THURSDAY Choices

PICK OF THE DAY In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss 10.35pm BBC2 ARTS As the final episode of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s version of Dracula devours BBC1 (9pm), Gatiss presents an entertaining documentary about the origins of the Count and examines why he’s become such an unmistakeable figure in popular culture. There are some thrilling moments — Gatiss is given permission to look at Bram Stoker’s notes and workings for his novel, now kept at a Philadelphia museum, including a goose-bumpy page where Stoker is clearly trying out the name “Dracula” for size, complete with crossings-out. And Gatiss meets seven of Dracula’s “brides”, including Joanna Lumley, from the richly gory Hammer Horror days, who are united in their fond memories of Christopher Lee. He also visits Whitby Abbey, which…

SEASONS GREETINGS, WHETHER you’re reading this clad in a comely elf suit or muttering “Bah, humbug”. Rest assured that BBC and commercial radio have something to suit every taste. Comedy is king (or queen), with plenty to make us laugh. My own top pick is Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show! (Christmas Day 11.30am Radio 4), where the verbally confused Count morphs Good King Wenceslas into Good King Senseless. Another old favourite has the blues in The Shuttleworths (Sun 22 Dec 7.15pm Radio 4) as John’s wife Mary cancels Christmas, gets rid of the tree and moves his beloved organ to the garage. On 5 Live, Nihal Arthanayake replays clips from his funniest interviews – including Lenny Henry and Dawn French – in Headliners (Christmas Day 10.30pm). And comedians from around the globe are…

Greta’s soapbox

Greta Thunberg is a busy teenager. She’s world famous. She has a message she wants to impart. She has the ear of statesmen and women. So this Christmas, where does she turn to ice the cake, as it were: to put the angel on top of the tree? Only one place. She is a Radio 4 Today programme guest editor. It’s like winning a Nobel Prize, only with no prize money, worse coffee and a 4am start. Still, it gets you maximum publicity at a moment of minimal news. Is she going to arrive in London by hot-air balloon? Or are we sailing to her? You’ll have to tune in to find out. But the opportunity for that publicity is hard to turn down. It’s a soapbox from which you…

Greta’s soapbox

Your Christmas Puzzles

Countdown with Rachel Riley Using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, try to get as close to the target number as possible in 30 seconds. You can use each of the six numbers only once, but you don’t have to use them all. Solution, see page 287 Super Sudoku 734 How to play Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Difficulty: 15/20 SUDOKU NO 733 SOLUTION Solution in the next issue of RT The Enigma Code Can you crack the Enigma code? Each grid number represents a letter. Every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letters — below the main grid — to start. Difficulty: 9/20 Target time: 18 minutes Solution, see page 287 Only Connect…

Your Christmas Puzzles

Your Christmas Puzzles

Three readers will each win Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700* (worth £349.95) delivering everything you’d expect from Bose. You’ll be able to take a phone call with a built-in microphone for voice pickup. There’s Bose AR — sensors that can offer you audio content tailored to what you’re doing — all with easy to touch controls. Enter at radiotimes.com/xmascrossword or post the completed puzzle to the address below. Wordfinder Find the name of the show in the shaded squares to win the prize below. Easy clues Just for fun! * AVAILABLEINSILVER ORBLACK Christmas Prize Crossword 2019 Cut out or copy this form. Closing date: 11.59pm 10 January 2020. Solution published in RT dated 1 February 2020. Send to Radio Times Prize Crossword, week 52 2019, PO Box 501, Leicester LE940…

Your Christmas Puzzles

‘I once drank 17 sherries’

You’re looking very twinkly, Miriam – are you the true spirit of Christmas? I’m a Jewish lesbian who hates Christmas, what am I doing playing a nun in the most-viewed programme on British television on Christmas Day? Something over six million people watch Call the Midwife – it’s part of people’s Christmas and as I’m in this episode I might have to make it part of mine. Six million! You’re more important than the Queen’s Speech… Don’t be absurd! Wash your mouth out, that’s rubbish. Did you enjoy making the Call the Midwife Christmas special in the Hebrides? It’s the most beautiful place I have ever been, despite the appalling weather. We spent most of our time freezing and soaked to the skin with our wimples dripping. Have you ever…

‘I once drank 17 sherries’

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