Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear years are to feature in a “two‐part extravaganza” on the BBC this Christmas, with star guests presenting highlights of the motoring show before his controversial departure earlier this year.

It is not known whether Top Gear: From A to Z will include “F for fracas” – the description used by the BBC for the incident in which the presenter assaulted a producer.

Rather than “I for injury” following the decision by the producer Oisin Tymon to sue the broadcaster and Clarkson for racial discrimination and personal injury, publicity material for the BBC2 Top Gear special suggested that “I” could stand for “inch high”.

Voiced by John Bishop, the “daft alphabet” idea, will feature unnamed Top Gear fans highlighting its “brilliant journalism, beautiful photography and the trio of middle-aged men who sat at the heart of the show”.

Clarkson is now making a show with fellow former presenters James May and Richard Hammond for rival subscription service Amazon Prime, while Chris Evans is fronting a new version of Top Gear that is scheduled to air next year.

Among other festive BBC highlights announced on Tuesday is a BBC1 penguin documentary narrated by Kate Winslet. Snow Chick – a follow-up to the successful natural history series Penguins: Spy in the Huddle – follows a baby emperor penguin’s struggle for survival in the Antarctic as it faces temperatures of -60C and a battle for supremacy against rival Adélie penguins.

The BBC will also showcase Dickensian, a new series using Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham, as well as an adaptation of the bestselling crime novel of all time, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, starring Poldark actor Aidan Turner.

The corporation’s Christmas schedules will feature festive specials of popular shows such as Doctor Who, Call the Midwife, Top of the Pops and EastEnders as well as a new sketch show from David Walliams, featuring Joanna Lumley, plus an adaptation of his children’s book Billionaire Boy.

Children will also be catered for with an adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s book Stick Man and festive editions of revived TV classics The Clangers and Danger Mouse.