Hancock's Half Hour / Hamish & Dougal

Sue Perkins samples the BBC production eggnog as she battles to choose two comedy crackers from Christmases past:

* Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Happy Christmas
The festive spirit is in short supply at 23 Railway Cuttings. Then the vicar arrives...

Starring Tony Hancock. With Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.

From the BBC Light Programme - December 1956.

* Hamish & Dougal's Hogmanay Special

Hamish and Dougal find themselves celebrating Hogmanay with a busload of celebrities after they get stuck in a snowdrift on its way to the BBC's Hogmanay Cavalcade in Edinburgh.

Starring Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden

With Alison Steadman, Jeremy Hardy, Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Sandi Toksvig and James Naughtie,

From BBC Radio 4 - December 2004.

Producer: Sarah Wade

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in December 2005.