Wheel of the year: Yule

In the wheel of the year,  Yule is an important holiday, dedicated to honouring the season of dark and cold, but also looking forward to the coming sun. Tonight explores the way witches see this time, and how they mark it.

Rebecca Beattie is a long-standing practitioner of Western magical methods; she is a Wiccan priestess and a friendly, engaged tutor. In her research life, she is a doctoral researcher working on the modernist writer Mary Webb.