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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.

23 days left to listen

28 minutes

On radio

Christmas Eve 2024 14:30

Broadcasts

  • Christmas Day 2019 16:30
  • Sun 19 Dec 2021 00:15
  • Christmas Eve 2024 14:30
  • Christmas Eve 2024 20:30
  • Christmas Day 2024 04:30