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Episode 9 – A Christmas Scandal

Episode 9 of The Total Christmas Podcast brings us another Muppet Christmas special, and it’s also a loose version of A Christmas Carol.  It’s the rather forgettable A Special Sesame Street Christmas.  Starring Leslie Uggams, it features a whole array of guests stars but only 3 muppets.
You can watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2ifwz7XqU

In our Christmas Story Of Shame we discuss the horror of the Road To The Christmas Bowl voting scandal.  On the Can’t Wait For Christmas podcast all listeners were stunned when fruit cake was beaten in the vote by the humble mince pie, well now we reveal how and why it happened.

This week’s Not So Christmas Classic is from the Peter Pan of pop, Cliff Richard, he broke a string of Christmas number 1s with this not so popular offering that I still enjoy.  It’s called We Should Be Together and have a listen here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBNiUcaH8cY&t=2262s

Then we look at the 2nd Yule Lad, Gully Gawk and find out what his particular quirk is.

If you want to get in touch you can email us at totalchristmas@gmail.com or visit the facebook page or go to the website totalchristmaspodcast.com

Merry Christmas

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Episode 8 – The Yule Lads

It’s Episode 8 of The Total Christmas Podcast, and the emails have been flooding in, all 2 of them.

We have a professional celebrity chef who is going to give us their secret recipe for the perfect Christmas pudding, and then they sing us a song.

This episode’s version of a Christmas Carol is the 1939 radio play, with Orson Welles narrating and Lionel Barrymore as Ebeneezer Scrooge.  If you want to have a listen here’s a link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gJ3jINcTR0

In Christmas All Over The World we take a trip up to the far North and look into Christmas in Iceland, and we learn about the Yule Lads.  Plus there’s a quiz, can you tell the difference between a Yule Lad and a Yule Bad?

So there’s all that, and we introduce you to The Total Christmas Drinking game, an exciting way to actually gain some joy from listening to this drivel.

This week’s recommendation is Librivox, a fantastic website where you can listen to free audiobooks that are in the public domain.  There are over 13,000 books to choose from and you don’t have to sign up, you can just go on the site and download a book, it’s all free.  Here’s the link:
https://librivox.org/

If you want to get in touch or get involved, you can contact us by facebook, email totalchristmas@gmail.com or go to the website, totalchristmaspodcast.com

Merry Christmas

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Episode 7 – Yule Logs

It’s the 7th Episode of The Total Christmas Podcast and we’ve received another email from a listener.  Hard to believe but true.

This episode’s version of A Christmas Carol is a seldom seen animated one from 1991 produced by Fuji Television and Saban International  Services.  They play fast and loose with the story line, but it has a certain charm.  If you fancy watching it here’s a link to it on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meZEOsCHqlk&t=458s

We take a good hard look at Yule logs, not just the wooden ones, but the delicious cake ones and we even have our first ever interview.  We talk to Darrell Sopel from Alberta Canada one of the masterminds behind the world’s biggest yule log as listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

And this week’s Christmas Not So Classic is also this week’s recommendation.  It’s Tinsel Tunes the podcast hosted by Duane Bailey that delves deep into all the Christmas songs we know so well.  He’ll be looking at Ding Dong Ding Dong by George Harrison.  If you’re not already listening to Tinsel Tunes, here’s a link to the website:  https://tinseltunes.com/

If you want to get in touch or join in with the show drop us an email at  totalchristmas@gmail.com

Merry Christmas

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