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Loading the player... WATCH: Dawn French talks all things her new book Because Of You "It's remarkable really, it's about the very real day, the true happening when Roald Dahl aged six, met the real 60 year old Beatrix Potter.  He had a tough old time Roald when he was younger, his father died and his sister died. "And he asked his mother if he could go and visit Peter Rabbit, so she took him to Beatrix Potter's garden, and I'm sure Beatrix was a grumpy old thing who had many children running into her garden, and I'm sure she was fed up of it".

Worzel Gummidge: Saucing Nancy – BBC One, 5.55pm Mackenzie Crook’s reinterpretation of scatterbrained scarecrow Worzel Gummidge is one of the great television moments of the past 12 months, so it is good to have a new adventure for Christmas. This time, Worzel visits a scrapyard with Susan and John and overhears the grumbling of a foul-mouthed old friend – the carved ship’s figurehead, Saucy Nancy.  Nancy would like nothing more than to return to the sea, and it falls to our heroic trio to get her there, which means a rare and rather challenging foray out of Scatterbrook for Worzel G...

Worzel Gummidge: Saucing Nancy – BBC One, 5.55pm Mackenzie Crook’s reinterpretation of scatterbrained scarecrow Worzel Gummidge is one of the great television moments of the past 12 months, so it is good to have a new adventure for Christmas. This time, Worzel visits a scrapyard with Susan and John and overhears the grumbling of a foul-mouthed old friend – the carved ship’s figurehead, Saucy Nancy.  Nancy would like nothing more than to return to the sea, and it falls to our heroic trio to get her there, which means a rare and rather challenging foray out of Scatterbrook for Worzel G...

Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne in The Quiet Man It’s the standout terrestrial channel offering on a Christmas Day which, bar a couple of nice new animations, Angela’s Christmas Wish (RTE1, 5.15pm) and Quentin Blake’s The Clown (Channel 4, 7.40pm), is more or less a repeat of last year’s. All the usual suspects are here: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1, 4.45pm); Britain’s Got Talent Christmas Spectacular (UTV 8pm); Call the Midwife (BBC1, 7.40pm), and Mrs Brown’s Boys (RTE1, 9.45pm; BBC1, 10pm), in which Mammy enters a Radio Times competition (which, incidentally, you can’t if you liv...

Review Roald and Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse, review: a sweet tale of a very unlikely meeting 3/5 This inventive drama, that imagined Roald Dahl paying Beatrix Potter a visit, lacked a sprinkling of Christmas magic 24 December 2020 • 9:45pm Dawn French stars as Beatrix Potter Credit: Sky The disclaimer at the beginning of Roald and Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (Sky One) explained: “Based on some real events… and some other entirely made up ones too.” Perhaps Peter Morgan could borrow that for the next series of The Crown? Some of the made-up bits were obvious: a...