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Unscripted on Boxing Day. So today Boxing Day. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Day I have

I certainly did I've spent the day with my family

nice big roast in a traditional way very traditional

Christmas day I have every year with the family,

with big roast dinner and opening presents after dinner and a few games in the evening.

A wonderful day and I really enjoyed myself. I hope you had a lovely day

with you and yours however you chose to spend it but today boxing day what what's a mysterious

day boxing days what what an earth is boxing day really it's interesting isn't

it we we tend to just see maybe Boxing Day as just, you know, an overspill of Christmas Day.

It's just, well, you know, we've had Christmas Day and we don't necessarily feel like going back to

normal life yet so we'll have another day we'll have a boxing day to add on the

end but a lot of people go back to work on Boxing Day a lot of

industries need to have Boxing Day really and obviously people they need their

staff to work on Boxing Day.

And it's much more, Boxing Day really is a tradition, is a much more British institution

than an American one.

So, you know, it has its roots really in British culture, the boxing day that we know today in British culture the boxing day that we know today in in British culture

it has its roots in British culture as well and it traditionally used to be the

the feast of St Stephen and if that sounds familiar

then you might be recalling in your mind the the words to the Christmas Carol

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