Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share The Night Before Christmas
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
The Night Before Christmas
Josie Long presents short festive documentaries about the night before Christmas.
A joyful Christmas scene discovered on an old tape, a poet holds the beauty and melancholy of a trip home on Christmas Eve, and Albert Woodfox reflects on 40 years of enforced isolation and the illumination and comfort offered by a group of schoolchildren in Liverpool.
Forwards and Backwards
Featuring The Djursland Fiddlers recorded by Torben Harbo in the 1970s.
Produced by Rikke Houd
Christmas Eve
Written and read by Liz Berry
Produced by Alia Cassam
Albert
Featuring Albert Woodfox and David Moorhead
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.8
161161 ratings
Josie Long presents short festive documentaries about the night before Christmas.
A joyful Christmas scene discovered on an old tape, a poet holds the beauty and melancholy of a trip home on Christmas Eve, and Albert Woodfox reflects on 40 years of enforced isolation and the illumination and comfort offered by a group of schoolchildren in Liverpool.
Forwards and Backwards
Featuring The Djursland Fiddlers recorded by Torben Harbo in the 1970s.
Produced by Rikke Houd
Christmas Eve
Written and read by Liz Berry
Produced by Alia Cassam
Albert
Featuring Albert Woodfox and David Moorhead
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
Curated by Alia Cassam and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
Executive Producer: Axel Kacoutié
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
More shows like Short Cuts
View all
In Our Time
5,430 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,801 Listeners
Woman's Hour
381 Listeners
Global News Podcast
7,629 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,756 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,081 Listeners
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2,123 Listeners
Desert Island Discs
1,986 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
2,083 Listeners
Newshour
1,040 Listeners
Comedy of the Week
469 Listeners
The Allusionist
3,001 Listeners
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
1,183 Listeners
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
2,116 Listeners
Ambridge on the Couch - this week on The Archers
70 Listeners
The Blindboy Podcast
1,763 Listeners
13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
4,196 Listeners
Americast
698 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
2,970 Listeners
Life Changing
67 Listeners
Off Air with Jane & Fi
153 Listeners
Where Are You Going?
34 Listeners
Why? with Emma Kennedy
7 Listeners
Strangers on a Bench
658 Listeners