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From the editors

12 Christmas treats… • 24—30 DECEMBER 2022 TO WATCH, LISTEN TO & STREAM

12 New Year treats… • 31 DECEMBER 2022—6 JANUARY 2023 TO WATCH, LISTEN TO & STREAM

12 Films at Christmas • RT selects a dozen crackers to watch this fortnight

Thanks Mr Hulbert! • From the original BBC turkey to today’s family animation, TV makes Christmas, says Jane Garvey

Special delivery • The midwives are putting on a talent show for Christmas – but what party pieces would Helen George and Megan Cusack share?

‘A woman shouted – you’re a monster!’ • James Norton was so convincing in Happy Valley, strangers accosted him in the street. Now he’s back for a finale that will leave you reeling

Eric and Ernie dance again! • Suranne Jones steps out to re-create a magic Morecambe and Wise moment

Santa’s Little helper • Christmas in Guadeloupe means jet skis and scuba diving, says Ralf Little, but nothing beats sprouts and gravy back in Blighty

‘Playing a teenager at 73? It’s crazy!’ • Sigourney Weaver had to revisit her teenage self to play a 14-year-old in the new Avatar film – but did Doc Martin really help?

THAT LOOK AS GOOD AS THEY TASTE

Band of brothers • A pledge made to his dying friend led Andrew O’Hagan to write a novel about male camaraderie – now it’s a heartbreaking drama starring Martin Compston

‘You’ve got to have a thick skin’ • Martin Compston grew up in working-class Scotland – now he’s returned to film two hardhitting dramas

Home Boy • Meet Jude Coward Nicoll, star of this year’s must-see animation

OLD BILL • Bill Bailey plays a grandad in Julia Donaldson’s story

How to dance like Anton! • The King of Ballroom says it’s easier to parachute naked than dance freestyle – so now’s the time to learn the basics

DANCEFLOOR DOS AND DON’TS

We are family • James and Joy McAvoy on surviving childhood trauma, making scary home movies – and being back together for Christmas

Fields of gold • Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones dig deeper into family, friendship – and what’s next for the detectorists

JOINING THE TIME TRAVELLERS • Professor Alice Roberts abandoned a real dig to appear in Detectorists

Martin makes merry • Doc Martin would hate it, but actor Martin Clunes loves Christmas on the farm – as long as there’s no lambing

CHEER UP! THERE’S LOTS TO LAUGH ABOUT

Monkey business • David Attenborough finds friendship and feuds among Morocco’s threatened Barbary macaques

Ghost at the feast • Mark Gatiss says his Dickens adaptation is a lesson for today’s Tory Scrooges

A piece of cake! • Matthew Bourne serves up an icing-sugared slice of Tchaikovsky’s classic

Culture at Christmas • Alan Yentob selects his TV and radio highlights

A slapstick scandal • Was 70s MP John Stonehouse’s naked disappearing act a political farce or family tragedy… or both?

‘It was wild!’ • What...