Happy Christmas from Greg and the team!

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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• 0:00Greg Jenner?

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• 1:13Greg Jenner?

  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.

• 1:41Speaker 05

  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.

• 2:07Greg Jenner?

  An elephant walking on ice, Mike. Imagine the insurance forms you have to fill in for that. The health and safety risk assessment.

• 2:13Speaker 06

  They must have had a moment where they thought this is probably not going to be worth it. Surely, lads, come on.

• 2:18Greg Jenner?

  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 Janiger. 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?

• 2:45Speaker 06

  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?

• 2:57Speaker 06

  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.

• 3:06Greg Jenner?

  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 podcasts.

• 3:50Greg Jenner?

  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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  Hi, I'm Ronald Young Jr. And I'm here to introduce myself to all of you who love listening to podcasts in the UK. Welcome to my world on the other side of the pond. I'm the host of Pop Culture Debate Club, the show that debates the important issues Of our time, is West Wing better than Veep? Does an iPhone beat an Android? Such questions we battle over on Pop Culture Debate Club with comedians and pop culture commentators. We'd love to welcome you all to. It's a competition, but a really fun one. You can find us on BBC Sounds and any other podcast provider. You'd be so welcome to join us.

• 4:56Speaker 07

  It was the first dinosaur ever to be scientifically named. And he came up with an animal that was about forty foot long. A profound discovery that led to paleontology as we know it today. Impossible monsters, these giant weird reptilian creatures. This was like a thunderbolts. Join me, Misha Glennie, and my three guests for In Our Time on this episode, Megalosaurus. Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.