The Sliced Bread Christmas List 2025
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The team has gone through 30 episodes over the past year, and carved out five potential present worthy products that may well be heading down a chimney to you this Christmas. (We wanted to give you plenty of time to include them in your letters to Santa.)
Greg Foot will share with you the key points from experts we’ve spoken to on Nail Polish & Gel Nails, Chopping Boards, Lip Balm, Smart Scales, and Sleep headbands. (The information in this episode was correct at the time of recording.)
And as always, all of our investigations start with YOUR suggestions. If you’ve seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk OR send a voice note to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807.
PRESENTER: GREG FOOT PRODUCER: KATE HOLDSWORTH
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it. |
| 0:13.3 | But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go? |
| 0:19.2 | I remember having this very sharp thought |
| 0:21.7 | that what you do right now, |
| 0:23.6 | this is it, this defines your life. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm ready to talk and ready to listen. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this. |
| 0:33.9 | Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:42.5 | Ho, ho, ho. Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the sliced bread Christmas list. And yes, |
| 0:49.7 | look, I appreciate that it is November. But we wanted to get this to you before you buy all those |
| 0:53.9 | presents. |
| 0:54.5 | This is actually the second of our sliced bread Christmas lists. Last year, we reached our |
| 0:58.8 | centenary, and to celebrate, we looked back over our first 100 episodes, and we picked out some |
| 1:04.1 | of our favourite investigations. This year, we've looked into another 30 Wonder products, and today's |
| 1:09.6 | list features five that we thought might |
| 1:11.9 | appear under your Christmas tree this year. Oh and talking of Christmas trees, do check out our |
| 1:17.1 | Christmas tree special from 2023 that asked whether a real or a fake tree is best for the environment. |
| 1:23.5 | Very interesting one that. You can find it over on BBC Sounds. So without further festive ado, |
| 1:28.5 | let's get to the first entry on the list, a classic stocking filler nail polish. |
| 1:33.3 | Listener Helen joined us in the studio for this one and she couldn't decide on which nail polish |
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