Which means that among the familiar fare on TV and radio this week you will also find the occasional Christmas special cropping up, starting with Inside No. 9<\/a> and Motherland. We feature both in this issue, and we also mark that traditional year-end celebration of sport, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.<\/p>\n Then there are those programmes that were clearly commissioned with Christmas in mind, such as Gordon Buchanan\u2019s great Yukon adventure, in which the presenter crosses the frozen Canadian wilderness on a sled towed by huskies.<\/p>\n Meanwhile on radio, actors Julian Sands and Bill Pullman team up to bring us a Radio 4 drama adaptation of Algernon Blackwood\u2019s spine-tingling 1907 novella The Willows.<\/p>\n All of which is the perfect way to prepare for the season ahead. But for those happy to hold off on the festive cheer, there\u2019s still plenty to enjoy. We interview Ruth Wilson, whose turn as the villainous Mrs Coulter in the BBC\u2019s adaptation of Philip Pullman\u2019s His Dark Materials<\/a> continues this week as the final season begins.<\/p>\n His Dark Materials season 3 airs on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday 18th December. Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on\u00a0BBC iPlayer<\/a> now.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Fantasy<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n By Laura Rutkowski Published: Monday, 12 December 2022 at 12:00 am It\u2019s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas\u2026 at least in the world of television and radio. Flick through the latest Radio Times issue and you can\u2019t escape the fact that the holiday season is almost upon us, as broadcast executives pre-empt the usual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27020,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/his-dark-materials-features-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover.jpg",1708,1139,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/his-dark-materials-features-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/his-dark-materials-features-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/his-dark-materials-features-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/his-dark-materials-features-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/his-dark-materials-features-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/12\/his-dark-materials-features-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover.jpg",1708,1139,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Laura Rutkowski Published: Monday, 12 December 2022 at 12:00 am It\u2019s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas\u2026 at least in the world of television and radio. Flick through the latest Radio Times issue and you can\u2019t escape the fact that the holiday season is almost upon us, as broadcast executives pre-empt the usual…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/27019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/12\/001-SE-51-1-Cover-1253a17.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C831"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nAlso in this week\u2019s Radio Times:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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