WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
A nostalgia trip for anyone in the UK who grew up on dial-up Internet, Findus Crispy Pancakes, and playground rumours that couldn’t be fact-checked online. We’re not historians — we don’t do dates, and we barely do facts — but science says reminiscing gives your brain a dopamine hit, so think of us as your weekly dose of hazy memories, childhood flashbacks, and confidently misremembered events.
Expect frequent arguments about who remembers things properly as we rummage through the UK’s collective memory box.
WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
COMING UP THIS CHRISTMAS ON WHO REMEMBERS
December shouldn’t feel like a sprint; it should feel like a story. We’re curating a month that blends comfort viewing, real history and shameless nostalgia, with a couple of surprises tucked under the tree. First up, we’re inviting you to watch Ross Kemp’s A Christmas Carol on YouTube so we can share a common touchpoint. Dickens still hits hard, but Kemp brings a modern edge that raises fresh questions about redemption, regret and the courage to change when the clock is loud and the year is short.
Then we head to the Western Front for the 1914 Christmas Truce, a moment that keeps echoing across time. You know the image—opposing lines meeting in no-man’s-land, a ball skimming across frozen ground—but the truth is richer and messier. We’ll unpack how local truces started, how they spread, and why some places stayed silent. Expect a careful look at myth versus record, the role of commanders, and what this interlude can teach us about humanity inside systems built for conflict.
We’ll also sink into childhood Christmas: pantomimes and nativities, the present you swore you needed, the one that changed nothing and everything. These memories map how families write tradition, how joy survives chaos and why the smallest rituals turn into anchors. To keep things festive, we’re opening the vault with a Chapel St. Leanords recording—karaoke, laughs and the kind of imperfect warmth that makes a holiday feel lived-in.
To close the month, we celebrate the Baby Boy Byfield tradition with a very special guest. Think local lore, cultural glue and the way communities build meaning through playful markers. Along the way we’ll ask for your stories, compare notes and keep the tone open, curious and human. Watch Ross Kemp’s Christmas Carol on YouTube to get ready, subscribe so you don’t miss the drops and share this trailer with a mate who loves a good December lineup. If it makes you smile, leave a review and tell us your strongest Christmas memory.
Hello and welcome to the podcast. Who remembers? It's not an episode, this is a festive trailer. I'm gonna tell you what we've got coming up in the month of December.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, it's a trailer, so um um what we thought we'd do because realistically the I think we thought of doing this is because the first episode that we're gonna do this Christmas is a Christmas Carol featuring Mr. Ross Kem. Um and we want you to if you want you don't have to obviously we want you to watch this uh before we actually do an episode on it.
SPEAKER_01:We're giving a recommendation, aren't we? We're giving a Yeah, yeah. What do we do? We we come down we we condone it.
SPEAKER_00:We condone, we condone it. So we thought, you know, I'm just gonna put a few things out on the socials, but I know a lot of listeners don't actually use any social media. So Woke. Whoa, very woke. So we thought we'd just do a little trailer about what else we've got coming up. So the first one we're doing is Christmas Carol, so uh with Roschem. Just type back to the code.
SPEAKER_01:Find it on uh YouTube, yeah. Type in Roschem, Christmas Carol. It's an hour and twelve, an hour and thirteen. I think it's as you see when we get to the episode, I think it's well worth a watch.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's the first thing we've got coming up. The week after that, we're going to do uh the Christmas truce, aren't we, Liam? Can you explain what I mean by that?
SPEAKER_01:Well, I'm a huge fan of dates, so I was hoping you were gonna do it.
SPEAKER_00:But this is I forgot, I forgot. Alright.
SPEAKER_01:Um, this is when in World War I the frontline troops uh in the trenches decided to call a truce and have a game of footy. So we're gonna talk about that.
SPEAKER_00:So we're gonna talk about that. Some of the four.
SPEAKER_01:Because I think everyone knows of it. Certainly us included, because we haven't done any research yet. Um we don't know much about it, we just know it happened.
SPEAKER_00:1914, so right at the start of the war. Um 1914, World War II.
SPEAKER_01:Before things got a bit sort of tense, then weren't it?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, so we're gonna talk about that because that's a that's a story that I've not really looked into, and it's Christmas themed. Then we're gonna do a general Christmas as children, what it were like um being kids at Christmas. That's a free and easy episode, we're giving ourselves lots of free reign in that one. If you've got anything to say about that yourselves, like any memories or whatever, then yeah, let us know. That we're gonna talk about pantomimes, nativities, um Christmas presents that we got from the back in the day. You name it, and then in the and then actually Christmas Day, I think Christmas Day you're gonna drop this Liam, or around Christmas Day, we're finally gonna release the um the bit like Noel's Christmas presents, don't know where they help sort of people in hospitals and stuff.
SPEAKER_01:We are gonna release from the from the files the recording we did in Chapel St. Lennon's, so we're gonna finally release a little bit of karaoke, some laughs, some tears. Yeah, join us for uh technically a listener's feedback episode. And it's actually holding up the next one, so we actually need to get it out, but we're gonna do it as a Christmas present.
SPEAKER_00:So a Christmas present, keep your eyes peeled for that. And then in the new year, well sorry, just before the new year, we're gonna talk about the baby boy byfield. If you don't know what that is, don't worry, because we'll explain.
SPEAKER_01:If you don't know what that is, then well where have you been?
SPEAKER_00:Well, exactly, yeah, it's one of the well it's it's a Christmas tradition now, isn't it? It's a it's a it's a December tradition. Um so we're gonna be talking about the baby boy byfield with a very, very, very, very special guest uh for that. So that's it. We just wanted to let you know what we were doing for the uh for the festive period. So you've we've got it all covered, and um yeah. Yeah, keep sending your messages, we are reading them.
SPEAKER_01:I know the feedback episodes have been blocked by the Chops and Leonards, but Christmas Day we'll release that valve.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and then we'll be back with the normal, obviously, listeners after that. But yeah, for the Christmas we've got Ros Kemp, we've got World War One, we've got the Christmas star, isn't it? Yeah, and and Darren Byfield. So we've got it all covered, it's all the main Christmas traits. So thank you, and uh yeah, see you on the Tuesday for the Ross Kemp episode. Good well at all.