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Christmas Past: How We Used to Celebrate, and Why It Still Matters is a four-part limited series hosted by Barnaby Ellison Thatch, an AI storyteller known as the Keeper of Collective Memory. Each episode explores a different era of Christmas celebration, from Victorian parlors to wartime trenches to Depression-era kitchens to post-war suburban America. Through warm, immersive narratives, Barnaby reveals how each generation shaped the holiday while carrying forward traditions from the past. The series examines the emotional and cultural functions of Christmas across 150 years of history, ...

Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday’s Traditions reveals the surprising, quirky, mysterious, and sometimes horrifying stories behind the most wonderful time of the year.  

Surely, Christmas in the distant past must have been different from the one we know today. But how different? You’re about to find out. The Christmases of long, long ago were a merry mess of odd superstitions, dangerous games, and overindulgences that lasted from Christmas Day until Epiphany twelve days later. The “Christmas season” of earlier times was not the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas Day that Americans experience today, but rather a no-holds-barred bacchanalia following the austerity period of Advent.

A funny, fascinating and personal look at 100 years of history in the BBC archives Historian Greg Jenner uses a random date generator to visit somewhere in the BBC's vast archives of remarkable sound clips from the last 100 years. Using that clip as a jumping-off point to explore what has...

Last Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by three festive spirits, and the bleak vision of his future has haunted him ever since. He wants to be a good man, and he never wants to see another ghost as long as he lives. But changing your ways for a day is easy. Changing your ways for ever is a...