My Life at Christmas with Anita Rani

In a rare in-depth interview, Sir Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster welcome Anita Rani into their home to discuss their lives, family, fame and faith, and how Christmases past and present have shaped them.

Across an intimate fireside chat, Christmas crafting in a festive greenhouse and a stroll around the stunning grounds of their countryside home, they reflect on Rod's rise to fame, Penny's journey from model to special constable and festive traditions, including exchanging gifts with Elton John.

Anita Rani meets Paralympian and broadcaster Ade Adepitan to hear his inspirational life story and how sport, spirituality and the festive season have shaped him, from contracting polio as a toddler in Nigeria, to growing up with a disability in east London in the 1970s, to the rocky road that led to Paralympic glory with the British wheelchair basketball team.

Now a respected broadcaster, Ade shines a light on the causes that are close to his heart.

Anita Rani pays a Christmas visit to Baroness Floella Benjamin, a pivotal figure to generations of young TV viewers. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Floella arrived in London at the age of ten as part of the Windrush generation.

Together, they retrace that journey and reflect on Dame Floella's extraordinary life shaped by faith and the festive season: from stage actor and iconic Play School presenter to businesswoman, child rights campaigner, dame and baroness, and even playing a role in King Charles III's coronation.