Here’s a recipe as essential to many Christmas in Britain as turkey ... add some noisy audience participation, and you have a panto. Pantos — short for pantomimes — are stage musicals ...

This year's CBeebies Panto Beauty and the Beast was filmed ... and his Cat as they travel to London for the Lord Mayor’s Christmas parade, only to discover a trio of cheeky rats are intent ...

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including the Radio 4 Christmas Day party ... winner Sam Bailey as she gets ready to make her pantomime debut.