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Chris Rankin is best known as Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, but now, Rankin is entertaining audiences through pantomime. For American audiences unaware of the very British Christmas ...

It's Behind You! The weird and wonderful story of British Pantomime on BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds New To Radio 4 Extra. Cultural historian and writer Christopher Frayling explores the rich and ...

Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It’s the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a “pantomime,” at a North London theater. But ...

If you think of the British as reserved and proper, think again. This is the season when the Brits loosen their stiff upper lips and, even in these austere times, devote themselves to merry-making.

The BBC Learning English team have been performing a special pantomime for you. It's the story of Cinderella and here is part two. The story so far... we've met poor Cinders and the ugly sisters, who ...

Jodie Prenger (Coronation Street, I'd Do Anything) and Bobby Delaney (Zog and the Flying Doctors, As You Like It) have again teamed up to write the holiday pantomime for The Other Palace later this ...

Pantomime returns unrestricted in 2022 after Covid rules brought the curtain down - and pushed productions online - for two years. In 2021, the pandemic was described as the "elephant in the room", ...