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Some Christmas cheer from Holly and Darren in December’s podcast. Come away in and warm yourself with their reviews and recommendations for the festive period. There’s a helpful list below of links from the podcast but we recommend a spoiler-free listen first!

And, for a treat, we finish with some beautiful music for Christmas – our traditional (we’ve featured it twice) helping of ‘Silent Night’, recorded specially for us by the fabulous Hannah Rarity.

The whole smallVOICE team wishes you a peaceful Christmas and a good new year. See you in 2024.

This podcast was recorded on Thursday 14 December 2023.
Available from Apple Podcasts , TuneIn Radio, and via your favourite podcast App.
Duration: 47’34 minutes.
Theme music and stings by Nicolai Heidlas.

Holly & Darren’s Christmas picks (in, quite literally, no particular order):

BOOKS
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (See also The vlogbrothers )
And so this is Christmas by Brian Bilston
The Illuminae Files series by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
The lady astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal
Space Opera by Catherynne Valente

MUSIC
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO
It’s Snowing On My Piano, Bugge Wesseltoft
O Magnum Mysterium, Jan Lundgren
Kate Rusby, Light Years
Sufjan Stevens Songs for Christmas
Hannah Rarity gigs

TV / STREAMING
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Taskmaster, Channel 4
No More Jockeys on YouTube
The Traitors, BBC One
Doctor Who Christmas Special, BBC One
Nigella Lawson’s Amsterdam Christmas Special, BBC

Kate Rusby by David Angel

Featured image photo by Gary Spears