We have a very special - and outrageous - guest contributor for what really is our final episode for 2025. While heartfelt and thought provoking, this special episode is definitely not one for the kiddies!

We wish you a very merry Christmas!

It's Christmas Day and we're here with our final Advent episode of Merry and Bright for 2025. We dive deep into Christmas dinners (or should that be lunches?) Whether you're eating out or cooking for one, we have the Christmas meal covered... And, we have a special surprise to announce.

It's our third episode of the season, with only one week to go until the big day! Frothing with festivity, we hear more of your Christmas keeps and humbug heaps, and our hallmark seasonal shit chat continues.

Those of you who follow us on Instagram (@merryandbrightpod) will know that we have been asking for your Christmas Keeps and Humbug Heaps - what is it that is most important to you at Christmas, or what would you happily do away with. In this second episode of 2025, we explore some of your responses and uncover our first Christmas controversies!

Keep your thoughts coming in! How do you react to this week's contributors? What would you add to either list? Let us know by sending us a voice note through our Speakpipe (https://www.speakpipe.com/Merry_and_Bright) or drop us a DM.

We're kicking off our third season in this first episode of 2025, where we explore when does the festive season start for you?

Happy Christmas! It's Christmas Day which brings our final episode of 2024. Our condensed series has flown by this year but we have had such fun along the way. How are the final preparations coming along? What's today's cracker joke? And how's Dan's nan's Christmas pudding coming along? This season finale has it all and more, including of course our seasonal shit chat and our final playlist additions.

In the penultimate episode for 2024, we have got an absolute cracker of an episode for you!

We explore Daniel's surprise weekend away, our Christmas preparations progress, Merry and Bright merch, and we even have a celebrity guest! Such fun! Not forgetting your usual cracker fix and the latest additions to our Merry and Bright Pod Spotify playlist.

We so want to hear from you - please do share any of your Christmas moments or suggestions of songs to add to our playlist. Let's all be merry and bright together!

We're now just two weeks away from the big day itself! Slowly but surely, we're making progress in our preparations and ticking off some of those annual traditions.