My Favourite Christmas Films
It's Christmas Eve, so I thought I'd share with you a selection of my favourite Christmas films, most of which I have watched over the past few days. I'll kick off though not with a film but with a BBC Christmas Special - a huge favourite of mine The Likely Lads, with the brilliant James Bolam, Rodney Bewes and the splendid, talented actress Brigit Forsythe. I always start the Christmas season watching this and no matter how many times I see it it still makes me laugh. I know almost every line by heart and being a bit of a Christmas humbug I love the line James Bolam utters, 'I can't wait for Boxing Day to arrive when some semblance of normality resumes.' Still Christmas brings with it, as I said, some good old films - there's The Road To Utopia starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. OK, so it's not strictly a Christmas film but there is lots of snow in it and Santa does make a fleeting appearance. Then there's Christmas In Connecticut with Barbara St...