A Very John Kearns Christmas
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner pulls up his sleigh to share actual recordings of family Christmas dinners gone by. From 2019.
Christmas might be the only time of year you set fire to your pudding - but isn’t it just another day?
A programme about home, memory and ritual.
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns pulls up his sleigh to share genuine audio recordings of his family’s Christmas dinners gone by.
Listen as his family picks over the bones of Midnight Mass, dissects jokes with abandon, mourns the quality of fish and chips and pays its respects to discontinued bus routes.
The tapes are interspersed with Kearns’ singular stand up, running through the litany of his Christmas morning, pondering Gary Lineker signing a Christmas card to his wife, and marvelling at George Ridgeley writing Last Christmas in front of Match of the Day.
Written and presented by John Kearns.
A Novel production for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2019.
On radio
Broadcasts
- Christmas Day 2019 16:30Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4
- Sun 19 Dec 2021 00:15Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4
- Christmas Eve 2024 14:30Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4 Extra
- Christmas Eve 2024 20:30Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4 Extra
- Christmas Day 2024 04:30Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 4 Extra