Total Christmas Podcast

It's episode 10 of The Total Christmas Podcast and do we have a show for you?  Do we?  I don't know, you be the judge. First we look at Christmas in Australia thanks to our listener from Perth, Rachel Teasdale, she shares a look at the delights she serves up each year for Christmas dinner.  We also pause for a moment to think of those poor older gentlemen who don the white beard and thic...

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...

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...

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&apo...

It's the 6th Episode of The Total Christmas Podcast and we have some questions from our US correspondent Scott Newmann about Mince Pies.  Scott also provides us with a great new segment where listeners can share their own personal Christmas traditions. This episode we look at the first ever film adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge; Or Marley's Ghost all the way back from 1901. You c...

It's Episode 5 of the Total Christmas Podcast and this time we look at Rufus the Dog's Christmas Carol, a very funny puppet take on the classic story. We have a brand new segment, My Worst Christmas Present Ever, and your host, Jack, tells the sad story of the worst present he ever received. In Robin Sings, the young songstress treats us all to her beautiful rendition of Deck The Halls....

In this episodes of The Total Christmas Podcast, your dear host Jack celebrates the fact he has a listener, strange but true. We have a look at Nan's Christmas Carol starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant a comedy twist on the usual story replacing Ebeneezer Scrooge with Joannie Taylor or 'Nan'. Also we discuss Kurisumasu ni wa Kentakkii, or Kentucky for Chrismas, the fantastic C...

In the 3rd Episode of the Total Christmas Podcast we take a look at the first ever Muppet Christmas special - The Great Santa Claus Switch from 1970. We discuss the history of that sparkly wonder, which no Chirstmas tree should be without - Tinsel. It's the first ever Robin Sings where the young songstress Robin wows us all with her voice of an angel singing a Christmas classic. And this week...

It's the second episode of the Total Christmas Podcast and this time we look at the history of mince pies and give a few interesting facts. This episodes version of A Christmas Carol is the 1971 Oscar winning animated version with the voice of Alistair Sim. We hear from listener Kate Beringer from Kingston Falls, New York State in the US, the sad story of how she found out the truth about San...

In the first episode of the Total Christmas Podcast we introduce some of the segments we'll be featuring each episode. We discuss the classic Christmas love song A Winter's Tale by David Essex, the Christmas sport of Genna played in Ethiopia, Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol and much more. There's also a disclaimer at the start apologising for the quality of this first attempt at a p...