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A Very British Christmas
What does Christmas Day mean to you?
This raw, kaleidoscopic audio portrait, made up entirely from voice notes recordings, tracks the emotional contours of the day as it unfolds.
Through midnight churchgoing and moments of quiet reflection to frenetic gift-giving, culinary chaos and karaoke, the programme evokes and questions our own multifarious experiences of what Christmas Day ‘means’.
Variously boozy, silly, sad, excited, warm, lonely, deeply spiritual and endearingly humanistic – the contributions chart a cross section of modern Britain, encompassing heartfelt-stories, accidental field recordings, impromptu songs and audio diary entries.
With special thanks to all those who recorded their Christmas Day for us in 2024. Original music and sound design by James Bonney.
Producer: James Bonney
Mix: Mike Woolley
Executive Producer: Olivia Humphreys
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 4
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66 ratings
What does Christmas Day mean to you?
This raw, kaleidoscopic audio portrait, made up entirely from voice notes recordings, tracks the emotional contours of the day as it unfolds.
Through midnight churchgoing and moments of quiet reflection to frenetic gift-giving, culinary chaos and karaoke, the programme evokes and questions our own multifarious experiences of what Christmas Day ‘means’.
Variously boozy, silly, sad, excited, warm, lonely, deeply spiritual and endearingly humanistic – the contributions chart a cross section of modern Britain, encompassing heartfelt-stories, accidental field recordings, impromptu songs and audio diary entries.
With special thanks to all those who recorded their Christmas Day for us in 2024. Original music and sound design by James Bonney.
Producer: James Bonney
Mix: Mike Woolley
Executive Producer: Olivia Humphreys
An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 4
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