Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show

Today we revisit the Christmas theme and suffer a few feeble festive jokes followed by a nice soundscape to get us in the mood for mince pies (I won't tell you how many I've already eaten this year).

Now we can ask the A-lady for a question each day and, if we get it right, there's often a bonus question too. Bit waffly but interesting nevertheless so why not give it a go?

It's our fantastic Faith to the rescue. She's providing her expert grooming guidance to compliment the official pearls of wisdom dispensed by today's Beauty Tips skill.

Into science? Want a challenge of the true-false, see-how-many-questions-you-can-get-right-before-losing-three-lives/your-mind kind? If so then today's skill just might be somewhat suitable.

Today's advent calendar skill is feeble in the extreme but, as I've been waiting till this morning (1 Dec) to record it, I had no idea and now we're stuck with it! After that we try to redeem this episode with some A-lady Christmas songs and a quick consultation of Wikipedia, but I don't think we quite manage it. Let's face it - we're way off.

Today special guest host, Holly Anderson, gives us a brilliant insight into the querky audio adventure game that is The Daily 5/9. I'm not familiar with the show Mr Robot (on which it's based) - but that in no way means it isn't on-air over here, although not yet available in the UK skill store. You can follow Holly on @DHSHolly and on the Maccessibility.net podcast. Thanks Holly and hope everyone enjoys todays episode.

Try to ignore the football noise in the background as we check out this groovy skill that harks back to the brilliant TV game of my childhood (so a very long time ago - but not quite in black and white) and, BTW, you enable it by saying "A-lady, enable Say Your Cards Right". Forgot to mention that bit.

Once again, brace yourself to experience yet more of my eye-watering ignorance of anything music-related. Faith's heard of them all but yours-truly couldn't name anyone in the charts - even if a whole packet of chocolate digestives was at stake. So don't listen if you easily get cross at sheer stupidity. You have been warned.

The first of today's skills is all about the news. Get it from circa 70 different sources. After that I completely fail to find a segue into the Sad Trombone skill (Wah, wah, wah, waaaaaah...)

Yay, Eric's back! Today he'll give us all the low-down of how to access your Pandora music subscription through the A-lady. Sorry about the crackles - totally my fault. Eric doesn't normally sound like that... honest.

And BTW for anyone whose podcatching app only downloaded one episode yesterday there were actually two. For whatever reason Downcast only grabbed the latest in the queue - i.e. the additional episode.