44: Early Onset Festive Frazzle

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Persephonica

Society & Culture, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting, Home & Garden, Personal Journals

4.6 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Spoiler alert: may contain mice destroying treasured advent calendars, teenagers issuing hostile birthday-party ultimatums, and a Proud Mum crying her way through a graduation. Also featuring: a shockingly effective Christmas wreath crafted from a humble potato.

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CREDITS
Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
Technical Producer: Will Gibson Smith
Video Editors: Danny Pape and Jack Whiteside

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0:00.0	Coming up on Digit.
0:01.7	Nell's got a couple more days of school.
0:03.3	She's having her 16th birthday party on Saturday.
0:06.3	I am not allowed to go under any circumstances.
0:10.4	How rude.
0:11.2	I was shouting over to Alexa, I was going, Alexa, let's listen to some Christmas music.
0:15.1	Alexa, play Michael Boubley and Francis went, no, theme from casualty.
0:20.4	That's hilarious. No, Francis, that's not Christmas from casualty. That's hilarious.
0:21.7	No, Francis, that's not Christmas.
0:23.9	All of that right after this.
0:32.7	Zoe, are you ready for Dig It Live?
0:35.2	I so am.
0:36.2	I'm really excited about this.
0:37.7	We're going to be in Sheffield at CrossWires on Sunday, the 5th of July.
0:42.8	If you haven't heard of Crosswires, it's basically the world's biggest podcast festival.
0:47.2	People have called it the Glastonbury of podcasting.
0:50.2	It's a whole weekend packed with live shows from some of your favourite podcasts.
1:12.7	They take other venues across Sheffield. There are after parties. There are DJ sets, outdoor bars, food stalls and lots and lots of free events too. And we'll be at the Crucible, which is such an iconic, intimate venue, eyes down at the crucible. The home of world snooker, of course, will be properly up close with all our diggers and we can't wait. The whole festival is organised under the creative direction of Greg
1:18.0	James and it isn't just us. You'll also be able to catch great shows like How to Fail with Elizabeth
1:23.5	Day and get a grip with Angela Scanlon and Vicki Pattinson live, plus dozens of other
1:28.8	podcasts, great festival vibes and so much more. Tickets for potting shed members are on sale today,
1:34.6	10th of December from 11am. You get 24 hours of exclusive early access. All the details are
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