This is an update on the L&O project for anyone who wants such a thing. Never fear, normal shows will be resumed at the normal time. This is an and, not an or.

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A festive Dickensian spooktacle from Matt Parker, a Detective-based Battle Royale with John Finnemore and Susannah Pearse tries valiantly to cheer up her hero...

This is a surprise extra Christmas freebie. We hope you like it. If you want this kind of thing every week, then we'd love that, and it will help us make more shows, and we're at https://www.patreon.com/listenandoften

Ziggy's origin story. Anna's adventures in decorating. On the people in wall and their funeral traditions. What really happens when you steal a loaf of bread?

Mike Westcott's adventures in lego robot battle; Matthew Parker buys presents for his gran; a jolly musical German warship; and what rhymes with mousetrap?

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Anna Savory is no fun for romance scammers; there are only six slow worms left, learns Agatha-Maud, and one of them is dead; and we ask if Christopher Nolan really got his first break playing a teen furry in love...

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Is Stephen Brown really a comedian? Mike Westcott's top-security-cleared No-10 temp faces his most deadly challenge yet. Also: is everyone weird and is that swan, really, worth half a billion dollars?

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Anna Savory's backstory gets longer and more complicated, we learn more about the early years of Britain's worst-named twins and it's Lessons in Economics with Mr Scrooge...

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Benet Brandreth joins us for an in-depth discussion of cats, crows, mice, bulls and other animals. Anna Savory discusses the legendary Savory Aviary. Also she's Irish, amazingly.

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Anna Savory joins us in a harrowing mood for what future historians are already calling part one of the Pets Trilogy. We get songs about economics and self-knowledge from Xmas Carol II, and we go on a Fantastic Geographical Journey.

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We have the Brandreth Papers, we have an amazing announcement, we have John Finnemore playing Extreme Extreme Libris, and is that all we have? There's only one way to find out...

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