BBC Christmas Collection

Get into a festive mood with this chunky collection of 30 Christmas stories to cosy up with, performed by an array of star narrators. Featuring classic wintery fairy tales, hilarious festive sitcoms and moving family dramas, there's Christmas magic for everyone in this collection to treasure for years to come.Christmas by the Lake by Rachel Joyce (starring Niamh Cusack and Robert Lindsay)Christmas Short Stories by Alexander McCall Smith, including 'Motordrome' (read by Hannah Gordon), 'The Revenge, or Otherwise, of Herbie Bontemps' (read by Trevor White), 'How to Escape in Gaelic' (read by James Fleet), 'The Colourful Life of Cousin Grace' (read by Stephanie Cole), 'Good President Wenceslas' (read by William Gaminara)The Christmas Present by Ben Crompton (starring Ben Crompton, Christine Bottomley and Stephen Marzella)Christmas Compass Series 1, including 'North' by Malachy Tallack (read by Steven Robertson), 'South' by Stella Duffy (read by Nina Sosanya), 'East' by Ruth Thomas (read by Jessica Hardwick) and 'West' by Mike McCormack (read by Lucianne McEvoy)A Time to Dance by Lucy Gannon (starring Nikesh Patel and Karl Johnson)Christmas Compass Series 2 by Alexander McCall Smith, including 'Winter Journey' (read by Kelly Macdonald), 'In the DRC' (read by Thierry Mabonga), 'Primatologist' (read by Meera Syal) and 'On the Island' (read by Adam Courting)Midnight at Christmas by Elliott Kerrigan (starring Luke Newberry)The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Anderson (read by Paul Copley)At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov (read by Sam Dale)Papa Panov's Special Christmas by Leo Tolstoy (read by Sam Dale)Some Hay in a Manager by Robert Hudson and Marie Phillips (starring Tamsin Greig and Joel Fry, and introduced by Stephen Fry)Daddy Christmas by Paul McVeigh (read by Tony Flynn)Christmas Storms and Sunshine by Elizabeth Gaskell (read by Carolyn Pickes)The Morpeth Carol by Timothy X Atack (starring Paul Copley, Ellis Hollins and Alun Raglan)Survivors by Laura Barnett (read by Tamsin Greig)Lena Marsh, Live and Shticking! by Jeremy Front (starring Rebecca Front)A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens (read by Oliver Ford Davies)The Gift of the Magi by O Henry (read by Don Gilet)Get Santa by Peter Gibbs (starring Dinsdale Landem and Barry Morse)Home by Christine Dwyer Hickey (read by Michelle Fairley)