BCG Daily Sunday 15th December 2013

Bridget Christie interview

From Miley to FGM, feminism has provided some of 2013's hottest political flashpoints. And Bridget Christie, winner of this year's Edinburgh Comedy Award, is ready to ride roughshod over anyone who thinks it's not worth talking about.

There are red faces behind the red noses

Comic Relief is under fire after a Panorama exposé, but the laws governing investments are complex.

TV rewind: Father Ted - A Christmassy Ted

Christmas on Craggy Island was probably always going to be a rather random, if not downright wrong affair. In the first of our festive-themed Christmas TV Rewinds, we journey back to 1996 and Father Ted's only yuletide offering, a thoroughly raucous affair that took the comedy series' offbeat humour to a new level.

The Stand release charity comedy book

The Stand have released a book of Christmas-themed short stories to support a Newcastle-based addiction charity.

Dave Berry on Through the Keyhole

The Through the Keyhole panellist and Capital FM breakfast host takes us through his festive TV plans.

Catherine Tate and Adrian Chiles split up

TV presenter Adrian Chiles and comedian Catherine Tate have broken up, a year after going public with their relationship.

Russell Brand's Booky Wook banned from Guantánamo Bay

A suspect detained in Guantánamo Bay has revealed he's been banned from reading Russell Brand's autobiography.

The only kids' show mums will want to watch

The songs are genius. I mean, seriously, you can take the Wiggles, put them in a hessian sack and fire them into space.

Citizen Khan: why Muslims love Christmas

The sitcom star would like to make it clear that Muslims think it's a wonderful celebration almost on a par with Ramadan - and that Father Christmas is Pakistani.

Yonderland Episode 7: 'The Heart of the Sun' review

While the reasons for Yonderland's existence lie more in its CBBC roots, it's a welcome addition to Sky's expanding roster of quality shows; something different for this moment in time.

Radio Times review

This utterly superb family comedy reaches an episode that's a favourite of the Yonderland team. You can see why. Debbie happens upon the Ninnies, who are another example of how the show takes simple ideas and makes them fresh. The Ninnies are a spectacularly stupid people, whose wheels are square, whose front steps don't lead to the front door, and whose sackcloth outfits really should have pants underneath. Debbie has to gently talk them out of a really stupid custom that's arresting their evolution.

Meanwhile, the evil but inept Negatus has been buying cheap sapphire ore from the Ninnies, who don't know what they're selling. The man he foolishly hires to refine it, a Teutonic glam-rock pervert played with immense relish by Laurence Rickard, is the episode's hidden delight.

Radio Times review

Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein bow out with a last clutch of stunts, many of them harder-edged than before. Fake right-wing hack Dale Maily romps around the Notting Hill Carnival, in a segment that initially appears to be a rather uncomfortable experiment to see how people respond to a racist. But the magic of the event soon gets hold of him.

Backbenchers James and Barnaby take their abusive coalition relationship to a teachers' union protest, before going a step further by somehow being allowed to address a closed meeting. One scene will draw complaints, but it makes a basic point well: in Kensington, the Israeli embassy is expanding, which is bad news for the local shops that will have to be bulldozed.