Top of the plots
What makes a Christmas soap special... special?

Novice worship
What can people expect at Christmas services?

Not forgotten
Farewell to the famous faces who died in '09

2009 quiz, part 4
Which twin is John and which is Edward?

Icy take-off
How do you keep an airport open in freezing weather?

Winter rituals
Do ice-skating and Gluhwein tell you it's Christmas?

Snow go
Just how common is a white Christmas in the UK?

2009 quiz, pt 2
What did Lumley's 'Ayo Gorkhali' actually mean?

2009 quiz, pt 1
Who did Kate NOT thank, and other key questions

Don't get mad
Is there something good about being bloody-minded?

Hark, hark again
The singers saving Christmas from its commercial fate

Phone menu rage
I do not wish to hit 6 then 4 then # to speak to a human

Fishy origins
Did fish and chips begin in the North or the South?

More than cows
10 things tourists should know about Milton Keynes

Older and scarred
What became of Romania's neglected orphans