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Christmas Past

Live From The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

Christmas Past

Brian Earl

History, Society & Culture, Holidays, Kids & Family, Christmas

4.9791 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's Christmas Past's first live show! Join Tim Babb from Can't Wait for Christmas and Brian Earl for an hour of games, music, and conversation, recorded outside the Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco. This is the first time the Dickens Fair has hosted a live podcast recording. About the fair The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is a one-of-a-kind holiday adventure into Victorian London - an elaborate party with hundreds of costumed players performing and interacting with p...

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0:00.0

November

0:02.0

on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day

0:04.0

Oh, they sail into

0:06.0

Elth on Christmas Day in the morning

0:10.0

And we all in the

0:12.0

November is the biggest travel month of the year

0:18.0

and yours truly had some travel plans, just as I'm sure you did.

0:22.6

But unlike yours, my travel plans included traveling through space and time.

0:28.6

The place is London, England. The time?

0:32.6

Sometime during the early period of Queen Victoria's reign.

0:35.6

And as I'm walking down the streets of Old London, I need to watch myself.

0:40.6

Things get a little seedy down by the docks, though the music you'll hear there is pretty good.

0:59.8

Down petticoat lane, I swing a loop by Mad Sal's dockside alehouse And find my way to the calm and safety of Tabastock House,

1:15.7

where, luckily, I have Mrs. Fezziwig as a guide to some of the more

1:19.8

more genteel points of interest.

1:21.6

Well, you are sitting in one of the poshists rooms in the whole London.

1:26.2

I mean, the Queen is here.

1:28.4

There is also the Adventurers adventurous club, which is a gentleman's club,

1:32.4

but they also allow ladies to come and lecture.

1:35.0

But I'll have to get to all of that later,

1:37.9

because I'm here on official business.

1:40.9

Yes, once again, I've traveled back in time to Victorian London, but to put it more accurately,

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