What is a typical Larkins Christmas?
A typical Larkins Christmas is a big family get together. Every meal Ma prepares resembles a Christmas dinner so quite frankly she’s got to go that extra mile.
Could you tell me a little bit about the big events in the village?
This feature length episode covers three days around Christmas and Christmas Day itself and all the excitement.
The family thought they were going to have their first Christmas without Mariette which is really heartbreaking to them. Then unexpectedly Mariette and Charley return for Christmas which is of course the best possible Christmas present.
They invite Charley’s parents to Christmas dinner as it’s very important to Mariette and Charley that they all get along and meet each other.
Alongside this Pop is trying to deal with a spate of burglaries in the village and track down who the culprit might be and that actually is probably one of my favourite elements of this episode because it’s a bit Dickensian. That element of everybody having lots and lots of things and some people having none and how unfair that is and what role we can all play. Pop does that in this special, putting that right and trying to share our bounty with others.
What do Ma and Pop love about Christmas?
The best moment for Pop and Ma Larkin and it always has been, is the moment where they manage to get all the children to sleep and then they all creep into the secret hiding places where they put presents and they distribute them around the house to each child at the foot of their beds and that is the best moment of Christmas when they know that their children are about to wake up and get everything that they hoped and dreamed for.
