Daniel is joined by childhood friend Micky Boyd to discuss how he has continued to re-engage with Christmas throughout the years and how his own losses altered Christmas for him. He also recalls the magic of Christmases spent working as a Saturday boy in Woolworths in the late eighties. 

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14th December: Store 34

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Daniel recalls the Christmas any remaining illusion that Father Christmas was real was shattered by his dad, and remembers his leading role in the 1978 school nativity play

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13th December: 'I am the Father Christmas'

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Daniel reachs the halfway stage of his search for Christmas more certain of how he might reconnect with it and recalls the Christmas of 1980 and the present that would further damage the fragile relationship between him and his dad

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12th December: 'The Grifter'

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Daniel returns to the site of an old photographer’s studio where he grew up and reveals the connection between old sports presenter Frank Bough and the Ruiz Tizon’s family christmas tree. 

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11th December: 'Frank Bough'

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Daniel catches a tantalising glimpse of Christmas. Could it be waiting for him? With PhilthD.

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10th December: 'Dear Mr Monkey'

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Daniel ponder the possibility of a new standout Christmas memory, and he revisits the school Christmas Carol Competition of 1983.

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9th December: 'Pinkapingpangpong'

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Daniel worries that his search for Christmas is proving a thankless task, and he travels back to Christmas ’94, the last time he ever wore ‘the raincoat’.  

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8th December: 'The Raincoat'

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Daniel recalls his last Christmas at Mayflower. And we travel back to Silver Jubilee Year, when a visit to Morley's department store almost destroyed the illusion of Father Christmas for Daniel.

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7th December: 'Morleys '77'

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Daniel returns to the hotel he lived in back in 2010, to a day that carries special significance for him. He also recalls how a work disciplinary in Christmas 2009 indirectly led to him resolving bathing issues that were affecting him at the time.

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6th December: 'The Sponge'

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Daniel looks at his dad's refusal to celebrate Christmas after 1981 and the truth behind Micky Boyd’s Christmas ’87 sacking from seminal US police procedural series ‘Kid Cop’.

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5th December: ''81'

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