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The story of the Brontë family – Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their reckless, brilliant brother Branwell – has enthralled successive generations. New feature-length drama To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (BBC One, December), written and directed by Sally Wainwright ( Happy Valley), looks at the family’s internal dynamics. A starry cast includes Jonathan Pryce ( Wolf Hall) as the siblings’ father, Patrick.
Also on BBC One, look out for the Call the Midwife Christmas special (December). For those who want to binge on alternate history, series two of The Man in the High
Castle will be available via Amazon Prime Video from 16 December.
For Henry VIII’s Six Wives (BBC Two, Wednesday 7 December), Lucy Worsley explores key moments in the lives of Catherine of Aragon and her queenly successors. (See our feature on page 50 for more.) Radio highlights include Drama
on 3: Autumn Journal (Radio 3, Sunday 4 December), in which Colin Morgan reads Louis MacNeice’s poetic take on life in 1938, written against the backdrop of the Munich Agreement and the fall of Barcelona. And Sunday Feature: David Attenborough – World Music
Collector (Radio 3, Christmas Day) reveals how the naturalist’s early career was inspired by working with song collector Alan Lomax.
Yesterday’s highlights include a UK premiere for After Hitler (Sunday 4 December), exploring world events immediately following Nazi Germany’s defeat.