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15 DECEMBER

Thanks to some RT Christmas magic, TV and radio favourites – one younger, one older – have shrunk into our miniature winter wonderland…

HELLO, little one!” Penny Dauntless greeted a robin-redbreast, who cocked his head as she pushed along her trolley of post on the daily round. “How often is there such a perfect mid-December morning?”

The Railway Children and Call the Midwife star, 72, on having a baby on Christmas Day, the best day of her life and how she never really wanted to be an actor