Arts
We're hitting you with a veritable explosion of festive cheer. Has anyone actually read A Christmas Carol? What's the etiquette around giving the gift of books? Which great, alcoholic writer's signature drink should you be drinking this Christmas? All of this plus the usual blundering tomfoolery and a big reveal from Producer Fred. Books (sort of) discussed: The Kitchen Diaries III - Nigel Slater, As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner, The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald, A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens, Only Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer, The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler, How To Set A Fire And Why - Jesse Ball, Time Travel - James Gleick, Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History - Boris Johnson, Pour Me: A Life - A A Gill, The Pigeon Tunnel - John Le Carre, The Human Stain - Philip Roth, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers. Audio engineering courtesy of Max Prior.