A miscellany of prose & poetry for the festive season, including:-

• "T'was the Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore

• Tree throwing from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

• "Advent 1955" by John Betjeman

• "The Journey of the Magi" by T S Eliot

• "The Milkman's Speech" from the Two Ronnies Christmas Special

• "Nursery School Nativity Play" by Joyce Grenfell

• "Christmas" by John Betjeman

• "The Boy Who Laughed At Santa Claus" by Ogden Nash

• "Talking Turkeys" by Benjamin Zephaniah

• "Sam's Christmas Pudding" by Marriott Edgar

• "Twelve Days of Christmas - A Correspondence" by John Julius Norwich

• "The Oxen" by Thomas Hardy

as well as a look at the origins of certain Christmas traditions, such as:-

• Christmas Trees

• Christmas Crackers

• Christmas Stockings

• Christmas Puddings

• Twelfth Night

A dramatised reading of Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol".