A Merry Little Christmas
Short Cuts
BBC
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Cold-calling Santa Claus, family gatherings and a solo tradition for the 25th December - Josie Long presents festive short documentaries.
Santa Clauses Produced by Noam Osband
Merry Christmas Grandad Featuring Mark Thomas Produced by Sarah Cuddon
Christmas at the Movies Featuring Hanif Abdurraqib
Production team: Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ho, ho, ho, merry shortcuts listeners. |
| 0:05.8 | My name is Josie Father Long. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the podcast of shortcuts. |
| 0:14.4 | I really hope that you are having a lovely build-up to the festive season. |
| 0:19.0 | I hope that you've seen people at least via Zoom. I hope that |
| 0:23.0 | you've done some fun making of paper chains. And I hope that you've listened to the slightly |
| 0:29.5 | problematic but still wonderful Phil Spector Christmas album. Very problematic. Oh, I don't know. |
| 0:35.9 | The singers didn't do anything wrong, |
| 0:39.7 | but I hope that you've listened to some good Christmas music. |
| 0:40.3 | There we go. |
| 0:45.6 | And now it's time for a special Christmas edition of shortcuts. |
| 0:48.7 | It is such a joy to make a Christmas version of this programme. And this is a truly beautiful and silly show. |
| 0:52.4 | And I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:59.8 | This is Shortcuts. |
| 1:05.4 | Festive encounters, bozy Christmas stories, |
| 1:07.7 | reindeer adventures, |
| 1:11.5 | and found eggnog. |
| 1:17.6 | Today, a merry little Christmas. |
| 1:21.7 | Hi, I'm trying to reach Santa Claus. |
| 1:22.9 | No. |
| 1:31.3 | I know somewhat parsimonious of the class people have what they like to call taste, but what you want is bling. |
| 1:37.5 | All of my relatives thought it was pretty cool except for my stepdad. He didn't think it was too cool. |
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