Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like.

Thank you for calling National Lottery. I can see you calling about a winner today, is that correct?

Yeah, I think I have. I'd just take to double check before I do a cartwheel.

Yeah, I can confirm that you have won the top prize 1.2 million oh my

what happy Christmas why do now you have the best Christmas ever this Christmas it could be you. The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply. Players must be 18 or over.

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and Hello and welcome to this very special festive edition of the Red Box podcast and the Times I'm

Matt Chorley and this is part one of the Red Box quiz of the year. 2016 will be

remembered as the year that the people did what the pundits and politicians

didn't expect from voting for Brexit and Donald Trump

to the populist emergence of Ed balls and voting McBoat face. It was the year that gave us the

never-ending labor reshuffle, the never-sailing Royal Yock Britannia, and the never available jars of Marmite.

It was the year the Tories overtook Labour in Scotland.

Labour overtook the Tories in London and everybody everywhere overtook Zach Goldsmith.

Junior doctors, Dame Lowl Godard in most of the Shadow Cabinet

or walked out. He throw had lift off, BHS collapsed and Jeremy Corbyn clung on, obviously.

This was the year when so many famous people died and yet Tony Blair's political ambitions simply refuse to.

Today we try to find out who paid more attention to the news in 2016, journalists, colonists, or politicians.

On our first team is a man who would happily describe himself as all three.

Times columnist, former news editor,

and to even his own astonishment,

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