Dec 29, 2016
30 min
Full-HD

Cunk on Christmas (2016)

Philomena Cunk is on a festive mission to track down the true meaning of Christmas, and find out exactly what it wants. It's an insightful documentary which takes her on a journey from pagan winter festivals and the nativity story, via 'Sir Charles Dickings', all the way up to today's obsession with Santa. Along the way Philomena will be grilling a variety of experts, trying to expose the truth about Christmas, such as why people still put up with 'brussels sprouts'.

Category

Comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

House of Tomorrow

Diane Morgan

Philomena Cunk

Kate Williams

Self

Jay Rayner

Self

Ronald Hutton

Self

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