The No.1 day out at Christmas

The iconic listed BBC TC Centre building

The look of excited anticipation on our faces is paplable

Girls allowed out for the evening

Christmas isn’t Christmas without Top of the Pops, and for your televisual entertainment this year, there are two programmes to choose from (the traditional Christmas day show, and one on New Years Eve), recorded on three separate occasions and welded together as the editor sees fit. Your correspondent, his research assistant and Holly Bush attended a recording featuring the Kaiser Chiefs, Dizzy Rascal (prior to his arrest), Leona Lewis, Peter Kay (as Geraldine) and Girls Aloud, amongst others. The highlight of the evening was touching three members of Girls Aloud (excluding the ginger one and the loud one), and Liz telling Nadine Coyle to take her dress off. If you enjoy the shows half as much as we enjoyed the recording you will have a wail of a time. Festive fun for all the family, I'm sure you will agree.

Sorry Father (and Mother)

Language, Matthew

I’m not saying either Bush or Ming haven’t good cause to retaliate to the joshing they receive on this forum, but to say I was shocked when they brought to my attention a piece in the Groaniad from 28th November which alluded to an ensemble such as that displayed here being more akin to that of Timothy Lumsden than Sebastian Flyte. I mean to say – what have I done to deserve opprobrium such as this? Answers on a postcard to the usual address.