BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog

As the BBC no longer repeats what was – for many years – a staple item in its Radio 4 Christmas schedule, I feel free to pass on this little...

CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS! [ Basilica di San Marco, Venezia. Photo: Brian Sibley]

From the creator of Mary Poppins , P L Travers, a mystical story about that first Christmas and a surprising gift brought to the manger by a...

I, as you all must know by now, love (correction – am obsessed by) Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol . Each of the story's fiv...

"On", as Mr Dickens puts it, "of all the good days in the year – Christmas Eve": here is the story of how the world'...

It's very nearly Christmas, so here's a little entertainment I created (back in 1983) reflecting – not too irreverently, I hope – on...

A seasonal conversation between me and the late, great Terry Pratchett about his Discworld and its mythic gift-giver, Hogfather, and what h...

...RESTLESS! My absurdly-talented chum: artist and mosaicist, Martin Cheek , appears to have been channeling M C Escher with this latest m...

Here's a little audio Christmas decoration for your tree as you set about wrapping your presents... It comes with love from myself and ...

Another seasonal amuse-bouche ...   Hit the Heights: A Radio Revue For Christmas I created this show as part of a BBC Radio 4 season de...