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Here Comes Christmas

By: Rachel & Paul Branston & Rev. Simon Lewis
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  • Celebrating the run up to Christmas with fun, traditions, songs and oddities. Christmas means different things to different people. Here's our personal take on the season with some of our favourite stories, songs and titbits - and some we've made up ourselves. We hope you enjoy.Rachel and Paul Branston
    © 2023 Here Comes Christmas
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Episodes
  • Christmas Day

    Christmas Day
    Dec 25 2020

    Happy Christmas day.

    Join us on our quick Christmas quiz
    Simon's final take on the Nativity story
    Thomas Hardy's poem - "The Oxen"

    - and -  Our 30 minute musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" story - 
    "The Elephant's Child" (or - How the Elephant Got it's Nose)

    Thanks to everyone who has contributed to our fun of the last month.
    All our episodes are online at:
    http://herecomeschristmas.net
    or on your favourite podcast download site (Spotify, iTunes, Google, etc..)

    Our best wishes for a happy new year to all
    Rachel & Paul Branston
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    50 mins
  • 24 December - Christmas Eve

    24 December - Christmas Eve
    Dec 24 2020

    The Christmas truce, WWI - 1914.  What really happened?

    A special Christmas story for children aged 2 - 92.
    Trevor's Christmas

    The most famous Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore.

    Wishing a very happy Christmas Eve to all our listeners.
    Rachel & Paul
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    40 mins
  • 23 December - Here Comes Christmas

    23 December - Here Comes Christmas
    Dec 23 2020

    Christmas and Covid in the theatres.  We talk with Katharine Woolley, the children's musical director of the West End show "Matilda" and Musical Director of "Waitress".

    Remembering the other Humperdink, Jane Austen's Emma and when we first flew around the moon.

    "Have Yourself a Merry . . . . . . . . "

    The Nativity in a nutshell.

    Follow us on Facebook.
    https://www.facebook.com/herecomeschristmas
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    34 mins
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