In this video three of the many people involved in the Turning the Pages project introduce the software and explain how the project works.

In this video Dr Alison Milbank reveals exactly who Father Christmas is, and it's far more complicated than we thought!

In this video we meet the team at Item Seven, based in the Portland Food Court, who cook up a very special Afro-Caribbean Christmas meal for their loyal staff and student customers:

Kat Higgs, Internal Communications Officer, Communications and Marketing

Paul Adeleke, Finance, Accounting and Management (1st Year)

David Akata, Mechanical Engineering (1st Year)

Kafayat Bello, Sociology and Social Politics (3rd Year)

Professor Louise Crewe, from The University of Nottingham, talks about how we can think beyond the monetary value of Christmas and still make it special.

Professor Elizabeth Harvey explains what life was like at Christmas in a German Prisoner of War Camp in 1944.

Nottingham Hospitals Radio DJ Kev Castle talks about what Christmas is like for those in the city’s hospitals and the ways in which they ensure that patients and their families still have a good Christmas.

Joshua Blake from the University of Nottingham Poetry society reads 'Winter-Lull' by D H Lawrence.

Dr Robert Lambert, lecturer in Tourism and the Environment at Nottingham University Business School,introduces us to the Short-eared Owl.

According to the green-fingered growers at The University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Allotment Society, there's no reason why you can't grow your own veg throughout the year -- no matter how small your garden.

This video is part of The University of Nottingham's online Advent calendar 2011

http://tiny.cc/UoNadvent

Ruth Kneale from the Counselling Service at The University of Nottingham has been helping with the Operation Christmas Child Samaritan's Purse appeal for nearly 20 years. In this video Ruth talks about the joy the appeal brings to the children who receive the shoeboxes at Christmas time.