BBC featurette on Winnie the Pooh and the real Hundred Acre Woods

Christmas Eve marks the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of one of the world's most popular children's characters. Winnie-the-Pooh first featured in the short story The Wrong Sort of Bees published in the newspaper London Evening News on 24 December 1925. The bear soon became loved world-wide, alongside Tigger, Christopher Robin, the game of Pooh sticks and the fictional 100 Acre Wood, which was in reality Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, where author AA Milne had a country home. Pooh's enormous fame still generates a substantial income for the area to this day, with £450,000 of public money being used to fund a programme of events locally to mark the anniversary.