BBC Radio Wales is your home this Christmas and New Year. We've got everything you need for the festive period with cracking entertainment, music to get you in the mood and great company.
This year there's a little bit of extra magic as the stars come back home to Wales - across the festive and new year period you can hear special shows from Ruth Jones, Wynne Evans, Connie Fisher, Rhod Gilbert and many more.
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Friday 23 December
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales get the festive season going with a concert of festive family favourites, including music by Tchaikovsky, Leroy Anderson and Christmas carols. Listen from 6.30 PM.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales in concert
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Christmas Eve highlights
Owen Money kicks off the festive party with two hours of your requests and dedications from 9 AM in Money For Nothing. Call in on 03700 100 110 with your Christmas messages (calls cost the same as dialling 01 and 02 numbers). Then at 11 AM it's the Christmas present that all Rhod Gilbert fans have been waiting for - the best bits of his show from 2011. And remember, you can download the programme for 30 days onto the shiny new mp3 player you'll receive on Christmas Day!.
Money For Nothing on BBC Radio Wales.
Rhod Gilbert on BBC Radio Wales.
Christmas Eve afternoon sees Connie Fisher return to BBC Radio Wales from 3 PM to present a pre-Christmas special. Connie will getting festive with music and entertaining chat, plus special guests including stargazer & Strictly Come Dancing legend Russell Grant.
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Christmas Day highlights
It's a musical Christmas morning as Owen Money takes your requests and dedications in Money for Nothing from 10.30 AM til 1 PM.
Money For Nothing at Christmas
The BBC Wales Carols for Christmas concert follows Owen at 1 PM and panto star Christopher Biggins joins Aled Jones for festive music and chat at 2 PM.
Aled Jones with Christopher Biggins
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Boxing Day highlights
Welsh comedy star and writer Ruth Jones returns to BBC Radio Wales at 9 AM for a two hour Christmas special, brimming with festive fun, laughter and left over turkey.
Then from midday it's the traditional Boxing Day afternoon of sport, with commentary on Cardiff City, Wrexham and Newport's football matches, plus rugby coverage as the Scarlets play Ospreys. For full details of Radio Wales's Christmas sport coverage visit the Sport Coverage Page.
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Christmas Week and New Year
From Tuesday 27 until Friday 30 December at 1 PM Mal Pope looks back on the highlights of BBC Radio Wales in 2011.
Mal Pope with the Best of Radio Wales
See our gallery of pictures from 2011
On New Years Eve, you'll have more Owen Money from 9 AM. And from 10 PM, taking us into 2012, Chris Needs is live in his Friendly Garden.
Then on the 2nd of January, opera star Wynne Evans makes a return to the station between 12 and 2 PM. Hear Wynne bring you music, chat and behind the scenes showbiz stories that are beyond compare.
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