It's Christmas Eve! We're here to supply our traditional festive ramble through a variety of random things we've gathered together for your enjoyment and diversion as you recover from a long, long autumn term. 

As usual, it's a mixture of the heavy and the insubstantial, the academic and the completely left-field. Hopefully there's something in the present pile for everyone, whether you're looking for something to think about or just some entertainment. 

After exhausting the selection of articles, podcasts and party games, our final offering is Emma's idea to shamelessly pinch the central concept from a popular podcast on the Guardian, which sees our intrepid duo sharing their favourite comfort food snacks and explaining the story behind them. 

If that leaves you hungry (!) for more, we hope you'll enjoy all the goodies we have lined up for you in 2022. That's it from us for 2021, and we hope you've enjoyed our episodes this year. Have a wonderful Christmas and new year, and we'll see you again in January!

Best wishes from Emma and Tom xx

As a special Christmas present, you can watch this podcast on YouTube here! 

LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:

Tom

The vanity of 'white guilt' - Lionel Shriver, The Spectator

The internet has turned our past into a curse - James Marriott, The Times

Maton, K. (2013) 'Knowledge-knower structures: What's at stake in the 'two cultures' debate, why school music is unpopular, and what unites such diverse issues' in Maton, K. Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a Realist Sociology of Education. London: Routledge

The seven types of rest: I spent a week trying them all. Could they help end my exhaustion? Emma Beddington, The Guardian

A Very Fatal Murder - Onion Public Radio

Emma

The Story of Aids - BBC World Service

A moment that changed me: Patrick Stewart on the teacher who spotted his talent – and saved him - Patrick Stewart, The Guardian

Things Fell Apart - Jon Ronson

Iant - Steve Blandford, Cambria Books

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Recorded in studio D0.12 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed Campus on 14th December 2021