Film choice

(2013) BBC ONE, 2.50PM ★★★★★

 Disney’s 53rd feature is an enchanting combination of fairy-tale derring-do and heart-popping musical numbers that has left children and adults powerless to its charms. Elsa (Idina Menzel) is a shy princess driven into exile when her magical powers are discovered. Her garrulous sister Anna (Kristen Bell) joins forces with a mountaineer called Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and gallops off to fetch her from her beautiful ice palace. Spin-off Olaf ’s Frozen Adventure is on Christmas Day. (2015) BBC TWO, 6.00PM ★★★★

 Intelligent children and immature adults will love this witty mock-biopic from the Horrible Histories troupe that follows the young William Shakespeare (Mathew Baynton) as he ascends from quill-scraping zero to literary hero. Some of the best moments (a running joke about false moustaches is one) are full-bloodedly Pythonesque, although occasionally a kind of student-revue smarminess creeps in. Look out for Helen Mccrory as Queen Elizabeth I. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, b/w)

BBC TWO, 10.35PM; NOT N IRELAND ★★★★★

Robert Aldrich’s classic slice of American Grotesque, starring two of cinema’s greatest screen divas, started a trend for casting ageing actresses in campy Gothic horror movies. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis play reclusive sisters locked in an abusive relationship in their crumbling mansion. It follows the TV biopic Feud:

Bette and Joan, which charts the behind-the-scenes rivalry between the two stars (see What to watch, p34).