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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 is one of the festive gems on this Christmas Eve Christmas Eve sees Worzel Gummidge on another adventure with his friends, while The Great Christmas Bake Off  crowns a festive baker, and Dawn French delights as Beatrix Potter in Roald and Beatrix. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss tonight.  Our hand-selected recommendations for what’s on TV tonight include three TV shows, a film and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set  Keep up to date with the latest soap spoiler storylines on TV tonight with our daily soap synopsis  What’s on TV tonight  Our expert TV...

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...