You're about to hear from our own correspondent. We do two versions of the programme, one for the BBC World Service, and this one's a download of the latest edition from BBC Radio 4.

It's introduced by Kate Adi.

Hello, today, one down, two to go.

The celebrations continue in the little town with three Christmases.

And in the city that never sleeps, why is our correspondence saying,

I hate New York? The tickets might be going for a thousand pounds a time, but there are

dark secrets lurking behind the glittering New Year's Day concert in Vienna,

and the day a Paris confectioners exploded, sending chocolate bars high into the sky over

mormatre. Now Christmas, as the old saying goes, comes but once a year,

but that's certainly not the case in Bethlehem, the Palestinian city in the West Bank, famous for being the birthplace of Jesus.

For here the festivities are continuing today and go on well beyond the time

when most of us are turning our thoughts to taking down the tinsel or maybe even giving up the

gin for January.

Yoland Nell has lived in this city just a few miles south of Jerusalem for four years now,

and tells us why she's looking forward to two more Christmas

days in the coming weeks.

There are no calls of Legs 11 or two fat ladies at the Arab Women's Union bingo in Bethlehem.

And there's another big difference from your standard British game.

Instead of cash, the prizes are household items,

washing powder, toilet rolls,

or if you're lucky, an electric blanket.

Bingo is always popular with housewives here,

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