Christmas Links #12


"The writer and actor puts the ghoul into yule with screen and stage roles reprising haunting classics from Charles Dickens and MR James."

"A Black nativity scene and Black Santa tree ornaments will be on sale this weekend."


"It makes me feel 100 years old to be complaining about the season’s over-commercialisation, but isn’t it really about togetherness and glorious anticipation?"

"To close its seventh season on June 5, 1879, the Apollo Musical Club began its annual tradition of presenting Handel's Messiah, under the baton of the ensemble's second director, William L. Tomlins, in McCormick Hall."


"Museums across the UK are sprucing up their favourite prehistoric exhibits in time for the Christmas season. Here are some of the best."

"Michael Palin stars in an exclusive adaptation of Terry Jones's comic novel. A tale of interstellar skulduggery, romance and unhinged robots based in Douglas Adams's universe."

"As BBC One puts its on-screen decorations up, we're looking back on their best-ever festive visual identities."

"A Welsh MP unwittingly turned on Downing Street's Christmas tree lights after mistaking the switch for a doorbell."

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