Christmas Chill

Enjoy a calming Christmas escape with traditional carols and laidback festive gems

Handpicked music for every festive occasion.

Festive fictions, family recipes and memories from Jeanette Winterson's Yuletides past.

Charles Dickens’s most beloved ghost story, first published in 1843.

A special collection featuring Christmas stories, ghost stories and stories for children

Who doesn't love a good Christmas film?

Listen to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, narrated by Hugh Bonneville.

Children's laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce celebrates Winnie-the-Pooh's 100th anniversary.

A day of live broadcasts across the UK to mark the beginning of the Christmas season.

Take the edge off Christmas with a beautiul playlist of festive gems.

Louise Gold celebrates The Muppet Show’s anarchic birth in Britain in the mid-1970s.

Elis and John take part in festive frivolity and celebrate their 500th episode!

Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks with Michael Morpurgo and Francesca Simon

Featuring excerpts from Ernest Shackleton's 1902 expedition journal with dreamy music.

Miquita and Jordan discuss when X Factor ruled Christmas and how Lily ruled SNL.

Comedian Matt Forde reconvenes his very own Focus Group for a one-off Boxing Day special.

Calming orchestral carols and warming festive favourites.

The Year in Review

The team at Jim Henson's Creature Shop prepare to take Fraggle Rock to the stage

Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore the true meaning of comfort, past and present.

Tales of 50 Cent, fights and Coleen Rooney in a trolley: it’s the Best of…Part 1.

Frank Skinner hosts a Christmas-flavoured episode of the show based on online reviews.

Katherine Rundell unearths the Christmas ghost story.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince venture north to unearth (or un-snow) the secrets of the Arctic.