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We’re delighted to announce that Moira Stuart will be joining the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2021. She’ll be paired up with Aljaz Skorjanec to perform a Christmas inspired routine with the hope of impressing the judges.

Louise is heading into the I’m A Celeb! castle this weekend! Tune in to ITV, Sunday at 9pm to watch the first episode. 

As part of the BBC centenary celebrations in 2022, Greg Jenner will be presenting a new BBC Radio4 series Past Forward. On the show, Greg will be using a random date generator to retrieve an audio clip from the BBC archive and use that as his starting point in uncovering connections through the people, places and ideas that link the archive fragment to Britain in 2022.

We’re delighted to announce that Louise Minchin is going to be joining the cast of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! 2021. Louise has switched the comfort of the BBC Breakfast red sofa for the drafty halls of Gwrych Castle Wales as she prepares to take on anything that Ant and Dec have to throw at her. I’m A Celebrity will air daily on ITV at 9pm starting on Sunday 21st November.

This week in the Spectator, Patrick Jephson writes on the signifiance of Remembrance Sunday, the Queen and Duke and Duchess of Sussex overseas.

A huge congratulations to Dr. Anjana Khatwa for being for being named on the Longlist for the Nan Shepherd Prize – A biennial literary prize from Canongate for underrepresented voices in nature writing. Dr. Anjana has been selected in particular for her advocacy for diversity in natural heritage spaces.

Moira Stuart has partnered with Ancestry for their Remembrance Day campaign to discuss her family’s links to the Second World War and their involvement in it.

Alice Loxton has partnered with Activision, game developers of Call of Duty, and produced and presented some Tik Tok films for LadBible talking about the real life WWII heroes who inspired the characters in the new Call of Duty: Vanguard.

Sian Williams will host Channel 5’s new one hour-long news programme, replacing its two 30-minute news bulletins at 5pm and 6.30pm from Monday 8th of November. The channel told Ofcom its 5pm news slot, anchored by Sian alongside Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije, attracts “harder-to-reach” demographics such as women in the lowest socio-economic group. Allowing the audience to WhatsApp in live on air is part of their innovative approach to the format. Another distinctive feature will be a regular mental health segment presented by Sian, who has recently achieved a doctorate in counselling psychology and has three years’ experience of delivering psychological therapy in the NHS. Channel 5’s commissioning editor for unscripted, Daniel Pearl, acknowledged that the new format “necessitates more investment in our news coverage” and said this will be forthcoming. “This is in line with our wider programming strategy to transform Channel 5’s schedule across all genres.”

Suzannah Lipscomb joins Damian Barr this week for the Big Scottish Book Club, where she’ll be discussing her latest book, What is History, Now? Tune in to BBC Scotland at 11pm on Sunday 7th of November or catch up later on BBC iPlayer.