An evening of programmes designed to whet the appetite for the festive season.
Ends 10.10pm.
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8.30 Gary Rhodes's Christmas with a Difference
The celebrity chef prepares an alternative Christmas dinner of pork with apricot-and-sage stuffing, and finds original Boxing Day uses for leftover Christmas pudding and brussels sprouts. Plus snacks for an end-of-millennium party.
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9.00 The Naked Chef: Christmas Comes Early
When holiday commitments oblige the family of chef Jamie Oliver to have their Christmas dinner early, Oliver arranges a menu of salted preserved lemons, feta cheese, roasted poussin stuffed with potatoes and herbs, and baked artichokes.
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Message in a bottle: Jamie Oliver, page 34

9.30 Jennifer Paterson: One Fat Lady, One Large Life
A tribute to the irreverent television chef whose death in August at the age of 71 brought one of television's most popular partnerships to an end. Her Two Fat Ladies co-presenter Clarissa Dickson Wright joins her friends and family in remembering this larger-than-life TV personality.
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Videoplus code 8.30-10.10 (not PDC)
Note: PDC functions only on individual programmes
(The film La Grande Bouffe is at 12.40am)