This month Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes from February 1969. And they are...

06:00: The pre-Python children's comedy, Do Not Adjust Your Set.

18:39: Civilisation - the groundbreaking BBC2 documentary, hosted and written by Kenneth Clark.

35:56: Saturday Night Theatre, and the play MacNeil, written by Alun Owen and starring Sean Connery.

48:20: Spy thriller Department S, specifically the episode 'One of Our Aircraft is Empty'.

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HELLLLOOO!!!

And a Happy New Year. This month, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes that greeted the New Millennium in January 2000. And they are...

05:07 - Blue Peter's first edition of the year, in which they unearth the time capsule buried on the show back in 1971.

15:33 - The Coronation Street hour-long New Year's Day special, revealing how the residents of Weatherfield rang in 2000.

29:28 - The very first episode of Dom Joly's Trigger Happy TV.

41:35 - The BBC's grand, ill-fated "social" experiment, Castaway 2000.

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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.