Total Christmas Podcast
Episodes
160 episodes
Episode 160 - US Christmas Classic Songs
Hello you beautiful people!We've tried this before and we're doing it again. Listener Jason Matuziak has sent me a bunch of songs that he tells me are classic songs at Christmas in the US. I'll let you know if I've heard any of the...
Episode 159 - It's A Different World Christmas Carol
Hello you beautiful people!We start the show with a version of A Christmas Carol. This one is from the sit-com A Different World, and the episode is from series 3 called, For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls. I watched it on Netflix and it was...
Episode 158 - Christmas with Shelli & Frank
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!It's a very special episode, because we welcome to the show Shelli and Frank Arnold. Shelli and Frank have been listening since the early days of the show and we've been chatting once a year about the...
Episode 157 - Midwinter's Day
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!We start the show by looking at the Winter solstice in the Southern hemisphere. Is there an equivalent of Christmas in June when the South of the globe has its shortest day?Then Bob Baker our r...
Episode 156 - A Bad Education Christmas Carol
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!We start the show with a version of A Christmas Carol. This is an episode of the BBC sitcom Bad Education. It has its moments.Then Bob Baker takes us to Poland for Where Are You Christmas?<...
Episode 155 - Alistair Sim's Christmas Carol
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!Last epsisode I told the story of shame about my Christmas jumer that was too small, but this episode we have a happy ending where a lovely listener gets to win it.Then I talk about a Christmas...
Episode 154 - A Christmas Jumper of Shame
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!Do you think the Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol is the best? Well think again, because in this episode I explain why it's rubbish.This episodes Do You Hear What I Hear? is an interes...
Episode 153 - World Records, A Carol and A Quiz
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!Last episode I talke about Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas and Bob Baker sent me a great versio of Our World, have a listen to it here:
Episode 152 - Emmet Otter's Jugband Chrismas
Hello you beautiful people!We start the show with one of the worst songs of all time. Mr Blobby was the UK Christmas number 1 in 1993 and it's pretty bad.Have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIRQrnPRiUkThen Bob...
Episode 151 - Estella Scrooge
Hello you beautiful people!We begin the episode with a Jack Ask question from listener Kevin Church, apologies because it's Valentine's Day related not Christmas.Do you know what the word 'Dross' means? Well, although I use it fre...
Episode 150 - Merry Christmas Dear Phoebe
Hello you beautiful people!Last episode I talked about a stage version of A Christmas Carol and listener Christy Easter sent in a link to her favourite stage version, you can check it out here:
Episode 149 - A Christmas Carol Stage Show
Hello you beautiful people!We've had a few emails from listeners which I talk about at the top of the show, one of those email was from Scott Newman and he and his daughter have completely ruined Step Into Christmas.Then it's The ...
Episode 148 - Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!It's our last episode of the year and it's packed in like 50 elves in a single Christmas stocking.We start the show with Santa Claus is Not Coming To Town and Todd Polte shares the story of how...
Episode 147 - Christmas Sarnie Smackdown
It's December, so it's Christmas and we start the show with this episode's version of A Christmas Carol. It's one I saw at The Theatre Royal Winchester. It's an old time radio stage performance and it started past Dr Who Colin Baker.Then...
Episode 146 - Do They Know It's Christmas?
Hello you beautiful people!We start the show with a version of A Christmas Carol and it's the audio release that Mickey's Christmas Carol is based on. The full title is An Adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol by The Disney Players. Y...
Episode 145 - Mickey's Christmas Carol
Hello you beautiful people!We start the show with Christmas All Over The World and we have a look at some of the culinary delights in France, particularly La Reveillon and the 13 Desserts.Then Bob Baker has a look at the word us B...
Episode 144 - Merry Refrigerator Day
Hello you beautiful people!We start the show with What The Dickens, and we have a look at some of the streets, towns and buildings that Dickens may have been referring to when describing Scrooge's London.Then Bob Baker takes a loo...
Episode 143 - Christmas Scrambling
Hello you beautiful people!We begin the episode with Christmas All Over The World, and we look at the tradition of Scrambling in Driffield, Yorkshire. Where children roam the streetsgo from shop to shop begging for treats.Next up ...
Episode 142 - Worse Christmas Carol Ever
Merry Christmas You Beautiful People!We start the show with Where Are You Christmas? and Bob Baker tells us it's hiding in Germany.Then it's this episodes version of A Christmas Carol, it's the 2019 version starring Guy Pearce. So...
Episode 141 - A Topper Christmas Carol
Hello you beautiful people!We start the episode with a few Guinness World Records. How heavy do you think the world's largest Christmas pudding was? or what about the most brussels sprouts eaten in a minute? You'll find out here.D...
Episode 140 - I Believe In Father Christmas
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!We begin the show by looking at a Christmas Not So Classic. This one is from one of the biggest bands of all time, U2. They recorded a version of the British classic I Believe In Father Christmas, and...
Episode 139 - Here I Went a Caroling
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!It's a packed episode and we start with The Christmas Quiz. I scored 8, make sure to email me and let me know how you got on.Next up it's Where Are You Christmas and this episode Bob Baker take...
Episode 138 - 101 Christmases
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!We start the show with this episode's version of A Christmas Carol. It's an episode of the Disney cartoon series 101 Dalmatians called A Christmas Cruella. If you want, you can watch it here:ht...
Episode 137 - Chasing A Christmas Carol
Merry Christmas you beautiful people!We start the show with this episode's version of A Christmas Carol. It's a made for TV movie starring Tom Arnold and it's an 'interesting' twist on the story. It's called Chasing Christmas and you can...
Episode 136 - Mr Krueger's Christmas
Hello you beautiful people!We start the show with a Christmas Not So Classic. The Pet Shop Boys were massive in the 80s and still going strong in the 90s. In 1995 they recorded a Christmas song just for their fanclub members. It's call I...