Ep 114 The Christmas Special 2022

It's the Christmas Special 2022 of the podcast and Jo has three pairs of guests talking about their festive traditions. Author & illustrator James Mayhew and broadcaster & author Zeb Soanes talk about their collaboration on Gaspard The Fox books, including 'Gaspard's Christmas' and the musical premiere.  Horticultural broadcaster & author Ellen Mary and Faith Douglas who is an author & curator of Thorp Perrow Arboretum, discuss their love of nature, trees and the winter solstice. And science communicator Dr Emma Yhnell who is Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University, joins singer songwriter Findlay Napier from the Story Song Scientists to bust some neuroscience myths, and Fin shares a song inspired by this topic. (Demo by permission of Findlay Napier).      Presented, produced & edited by Jo Durrant. Music licensed from Purple Planet.