When it comes to cajoling the nation into the Christmas spirit, Raymond Briggs has been doing the heavy ... A few years later, it became an animated film and a staple of the Christmas television ...

Over the last half century - much to his horror - Raymond Briggs has become a part of Christmas. Two books about a grumpy Father Christmas have become bestsellers. The film adaptation of his 1978 ...

Forty years after The Snowman was first broadcast on Channel 4, the story of how Raymond Briggs' classic tale was made and became a festive British institution ...