Christmas Number Ones

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Never mind world wars or revolutions, it's time to do the really important history - how did Christmas singles become a thing in the UK, and when was the golden age of of the festive hit. Warning; includes John doing dad singing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History.
0:05.6	Oh, ho, ho. Happy Christmas, everybody.
0:09.0	What are you doing, Jim?
0:10.4	I'm here with my big white beard on my red and white Santa suit.
0:16.5	It's Christmas, Angela, the happiest time of the year.
0:20.7	Oh, God. Have you got all Christmassy, John? Well, it's just December, isn't it? Christmas, Angela, the happiest time of the year.
0:21.6	Oh God.
0:23.1	Have you got all Christmasy, John?
0:25.0	Well, it's just December, isn't it?
0:25.8	Yeah.
0:27.6	Well, actually, it is when you're listening to this.
0:31.5	Yeah, so we've got to do a special Christmas one.
0:33.4	The last one of the series, I'm going to miss it.
0:33.7	Yeah.
0:34.4	Yeah.
0:35.7	Yeah, but we've done eight.
0:37.7	That's not bad, considering how much we had on. That's pretty good. We've managed to fill it in in our busy lives.
0:40.8	Yeah, our busy lives between, you know, emailing program controllers.
0:47.4	Yeah, quite. Trying to come up with book ideas or whatever we do. Yeah, all that other stuff.
0:52.5	A special Christmas edition. And yeah, tell us what it's about. Well, all that other stuff. A special Christmasy edition.
0:56.7	And, yeah, tell us what it's about.
1:02.3	Well, I considered various Christmassy themes, John, like the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev. That happened on Christmas Day and marked the end of the Soviet Union.
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