The Flint Street Nativity

Schoolteacher Mrs Humphries (Lyn Hunter) must surely wonder what she did to deserve her particular class of seven-year-olds. Jane Horrocks, Dervla Kirwan, Josie Lawrence, Neil Morrissey, Frank Skinner and Stephen Tompkinson make up just part of the register, each assigned a role in the school Nativity play. Preston Front writer Tim Firth's hilarious and poignant seasonal one-off has a cast-list that reads like a Who's Who of British comedy, was filmed on an oversize set to make the actors' characters all the more believable, and features choice performances from a power-mad Angel Gabriel and a lovelorn Innkeeper