What with summer holidays and all that, we've not been able to get Mark Ellen and Kate Mossman together during on-sale week for a few months, but this week they're BACK BACK BACK with a new video, a visual treat in which the usual corpsing and mistakes have been edited out in our traditional (i.e. clumsy) in-house style. In this clip, the dynamic duo reveal some of their favourite moments from the December 2009 issue of The Word.

In this issue: The Specials and Madness, rare photos of Blondie, Jimmy Carr, Stephen Moyer, Mumford & Sons, Jo Brand, the Best and Worst Monsters, Lily Allen and the rise of the blogging bullies, Phill Jupitus, Paul Haig, Holly Johnson, Richard Linklater, James Ellroy, David McAlmont & Michael Nyman, Sarah Millican, a Word To The Wise with Ben Goldacre, Chris Evans, Eddie Kramer on Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, plus our round-up of the very best in new music, film, DVD and books, and columnists David Hepworth, Andrew Collins, Sophie Heawood, Giles Smith and Barry McIlheney.

And finally: our free, 15-track CD features Luke Haines, Pugwash, The Flaming Lips, McAlmont & Nyman, Teitur, Dave Rawlings Machine and many more...