You're Dead to Me - Happy Christmas from Greg and the team!

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

Greg Jenner invites you to listen to the Christmas specials in the back catalogue and looks ahead to the new series of You're Dead To Me.

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Ho, ho, ho! Hello friends, Greg here. I hope you're having a lovely Christmas season and a great New Year is on the horizon for you. I just thought I'd pop in here to remind you of our lovely Christmas specials from the back catalogue. We've got three, of course, to enjoy. If you scroll down in the feed, the first one you'll find is the radio edit of Christmas with Charles Dickens. A bit further down, you'll find the full-length podcast version. Our guests there were Dr Emily Bell and of course Mike Wozniak. It's a lovely one. Dickens may be part of the reason that our idealised Christmas is snowy. And it was so icy during

Dickens's early years that the River Thames froze in February of 1814 and London celebrated its final Thames frost fair that year. So what they would do is roll out tents and vendors onto the ice, do drinking, dancing, bowling and there was even an elephant being led across the river just below Blackfriars Bridge. An elephant walking on ice Mike, imagine the insurance forms you have to pay for that. The health and safety risk assessment. They must have had a moment where they thought this is probably not going to be worth it. Surely, lads, come on.

And if you keep scrolling, or if you just want to type things into the search box, if that's easier for you, you will find both long and short versions of our medieval Christmas episode with Miles Jupp and Dr. Eleanor Janneger. There's a large festive period that goes all the way through January and it leads up to what is called Candlemas and that's on the 2nd of February which marks the end of Christmas time. Wow Miles could you go to February 2nd? Can you commit to that kind of level of engagement with Christmas spirit? No to me I have to say that seems slightly long. Do you know what I mean? I think that

point where you're looking forward to, you know when you start thinking, when is the first bin collection after Christmas? To me that seems a vital date. When are we going to get rid of these bottles? That to me seems to be like the end of Christmas I suppose. The big bin day. And even further back in the feed, in fact all the way back to the end of series one, you will find our very first Christmas special which was about the Victorian Christmas with Dr Fern Riddell and Russell Kane. Again available in both long lovely pod form and shorter radio edit. Now that's the one to listen to if you want to know why on earth we celebrate Christmas with cars, crackers and dragging a tree inside our house, which when you think about it is quite a weird thing to do. And if all of that doesn't keep

you going until 2025, you might like to tuck into our episode about the history of chocolate while you polish off your Christmas selection box. Delicious. Oh, and finally, I'm delighted to tell you that we are back for a brand new series in the new year. New episodes will be released on Fridays wherever you get your podcast But if you're in the UK you can listen to the latest episodes 28 days earlier than anywhere else first on BBC Sounds so just a big warm lovely festive hug to you all I hope to see you in the new year for a brand new series lots of new jokes lots of new facts great guests Take care. Thank you. Bye.

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Japan and South Korea over fermented cabbage. Christetta Cumberford tells us how she became the first person of color to be the top White House chef and how Hollywood bigwigs mocking British food led to the creation of one of the most popular cookery programmes on the planet. Witness History, the podcast that takes you to amazing moments in history told through the eyes of the people who were there. Search and subscribe to Witness History wherever you get your BBC podcasts.