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The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Music, Comedy

4.7 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It’s the final show of the year, and the Christian O’Connell Show is emptying the tank. Christian fires off his favourite picks of 2025, from the “sensational” Wicked to the gut punch power of The Handmaid’s Tale. Alex wades in with his own obsessions: The Mushroom Daily and Ian McEwan’s What Can We Know. The team trade their best books, TV shows and music of the year, share a few surprises, and wrap it all with a massive washer dryer giveaway. Last show of the year, zero coasting.

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts. You can hear more
0:03.1	Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist and listen live on the free IHart app.
0:09.2	Got anything good?
0:11.1	Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:18.4	Good morning, Alex. Morning. Good morning, Pat.
0:21.1	Yay.
0:23.1	Small thing to say, but a big thing for us, our boy Rio, off sick, second day, and real shame.
0:30.8	Big year of him personally and on this show as well.
0:33.6	Gutter that he's not in the studio with us for his last show.
0:36.7	He's been a transformational year
0:38.3	for that young kid. And what a shame. It's got this awful kind of infection.
0:42.3	Have anyone noticed? Your friends, everyone's sick at the moment? Yes. Yep.
0:47.1	You know, last week, this was me. And everyone's sick at the moment. All right, so on a Friday,
0:52.2	it's all about two things. BFE, Big Friday, Angie, and double
0:55.7	thumbs up. These are our recommendations. We do this every Friday, where there's a book, TV
0:59.8	shows, movies, things that we've really enjoyed the last seven days. It might be something your next
1:04.4	favorite TV show, book or movie. During the next half an hour, because it's the last show of the year.
1:09.2	These are our favorite things of the year.
1:11.7	So, you take part as well. Every Friday we get your recommendations. What have you really enjoyed this year?
1:16.7	What did you say? Your favorite TV shows, movies, books, anything that you've really loved the most this year. Share it with me.
1:23.7	0475-03-1043. Pats, let's kick up with you, mate. What have you loved this year?
1:29.8	The thing that I can't, or two things actually, that I can't stop thinking about.
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