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Is panic present shopping killing Christmas?

"There is no greater gift than never again having to walk into an overheated, Wham-blasting shopp...

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08.12 22 Dec 2021


Is panic present shopping killing Christmas?


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08.12 22 Dec 2021


"There is no greater gift than never again having to walk into an overheated, Wham-blasting shopping centre full of animatronic reindeer and the smell of damp hair, to spend £20 on a pot plant that nobody has asked for nor, in all probability, wants.” So says columnist Nell Frizzell in The Guardian this week and Nell joined us this morning on the show this Christmas week.

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