A festive edition of the classic food programme from 1993
Chris Kelly, Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke present a festive edition of the classic food programme from 1993, with guests Patrick Barlow and Helen Atkinson-Wood. Featuring ideas for Christmas appetizers, and Jilly and Oz challenge each other to blind taste and identify different white wines. First broadcast 14 December 1993
The 2022 Christmas competition for teams of distinguished alumni continues
The 2022 Christmas competition for teams of distinguished alumni continues. Two of the four highest-scoring winning teams from the heats return to play the second of this year's semi-finals. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions
Chat show compilation of previous Morecambe and Wise shows
Chat show compilation of previous Morecambe and Wise shows introduced by Michael Parkinson. Those taking part include Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Tom Jones, Andre Previn, Shirley Bassey, Peter Cushing and Glenda Jackson
The comedian sends up Christmas TV in a festive special from 2000. Guest stars including Julie Walters, Alan Rickman, Pete Postlethwaite, Celia Imrie, James Bolam, Delia Smith, Richard E Grant, Derek Jacobi, Alan Titchmarsh, Michael Parkinson and Imelda Staunton pop up in pastiches of everything from a big-band show from the 1950s to a Dickens period drama
Screenwriter William Nicholson looks back on the 1985 BBC drama, Shadowlands
Screenwriter William Nicholson recalls the making of the 1985 BBC drama, Shadowlands, in which Joss Ackland played Narnia writer CS Lewis and Claire Bloom portrayed poet Joy Davidman. William shares how the drama's success transformed his life completely, taking him to Hollywood and making him one of the UK's most accomplished film and television writers
Drama, starring Joss Ackland. Noted author and scholar CS Lewis receives a letter from an American fan, Joy Davidman, which interests him. He decides to write back, and out of this slight first contact grows a passion that shatters and transforms his life. First broadcast 1985
How the season has been depicted by Western painters
Documentary exploring how man's struggle with the onset of winter has been depicted by Western painters across the centuries. Among the works featured is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Hunters in the Snow from 1565 - one of the first paintings to sum up the season as a vision of beauty. With contributions by Grayson Perry, Will Self and Don McCullin, among others
A festive edition of the classic food programme from 1993
Chris Kelly, Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke present a festive edition of the classic food programme from 1993, with guests Patrick Barlow and Helen Atkinson-Wood. Featuring ideas for Christmas appetizers, and Jilly and Oz challenge each other to blind taste and identify different white wines. First broadcast 14 December 1993
The comedian sends up Christmas TV in a festive special from 2000. Guest stars including Julie Walters, Alan Rickman, Pete Postlethwaite, Celia Imrie, James Bolam, Delia Smith, Richard E Grant, Derek Jacobi, Alan Titchmarsh, Michael Parkinson and Imelda Staunton pop up in pastiches of everything from a big-band show from the 1950s to a Dickens period drama
Lucy explores the tradition of festive hymns, revealing that there is much more to the best-loved carols than meets the eye, and how they reveal the history of Christmas itself. In the ancient past, pagan fertility ritual the wassail gave rise to door-to-door singing, and was also an integral part of an older midwinter festival adopted by Christianity when it came to Britain, and was rebranded as Christmas
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