And so this is Christmas...

In their first-ever feature-length festive spectacular, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are joined by special guest Mark Gatiss, as all three nominate their favourite and least-favourite Christmas specials. They are...

6:58 - Samira's least-favourite: The Star Wars Holiday Special
13:31 - Samira's favourite: The Goodies: 'Earthanasia'

26: 38 - Graham's least-favourite: Russell Harty Goes... Upstairs, Downstairs
35:36 - Graham's favourite: Minder on the Orient Express

51:52 - Mark Gatiss joins us to talk about his A Ghost Story for Christmas for 2025, The Room in the Tower, which airs on BBC2 on Christmas Eve. And then...

55:57 - Mark's least-favourite: The 'wrong' film at Christmas
1:01:11 - Mark's favourite: The Ghosts of Motley Hall: 'The Christmas Spirit'

Plus, listeners' emails, and a salute to the magic of Woolworth's Christmas adverts. And you can find Steve Berry's Woolies YouTube playlist here.

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Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk

This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

Eyes down for episode three of Through the Square Window!

In this instalment, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV programmes that were airing 41 years ago, in November 1984: A blistering edition of BBC1 game show Bob's Full House; Ray Davies' Channel 4 TV film Return to Waterloo; we compare and contrast two female-led police dramas, both screening on Saturday nights, Juliet Bravo and The Gentle Touch; and we're joined by TV director, producer and former Blue Peter editor Richard Marson to discuss the final ever episode of Rentaghost.

Richard's book, Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television: 1967-1997 is published on November 17 by Ten Acre Books.

If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk

Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk

This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

Welcome, stranger, to episode two of Through the Square Window!

In this instalment, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV shows that were airing 35 years ago, in October 1990: The TV pilot of cult topical comedy The Mary Whitehouse Experience; an episode on BBC One's teatime consumer affairs programme Watchdog; Anglia Television's sword and sorcery game show for children, Knightmare; and the first ever episode of Twin Peaks.

If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk

Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk

This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.