Summary: Treasure Island is The National Theatre's seasonal offering, full of pirates, parrots and seaspray. How does it play to the various audiences who come to the theatre at Christmas? Electricity is a film starring Agyness Deyn whose character deals with her epilepsy as she tries to find a community to be a part of. Charlie Brooker is back with a one-off feature-length Christmas special of Black Mirror on C4. It's a worrying look at a future world that may be closer to the present than we expect - guaranteed to inject some darkness into the joviality of Christmas. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler's new novel is The Hot Country; a historical thriller set in Mexico 1914 with a hardbitten journalist as hero. The V+A has an exhibition of Dolls' Houses a world of wonder in miniature. How do they reflect the society of the children for whom they were made? Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Deborah Bull, Neil Brand and Misha Glenny. The producer is Oliver Jones
