About this episode
The episode features discussions on creating a stress-free Christmas, live music, and advice for post-divorce celebrations.
What are the perfect ingredients for a stress-free Christmas? How do you render the Arctic in song? And what does it sound like when we drink from each other’s teats? … Just three of the hot topics being debated in our annual festive knees-up! Joining Olly Mann, Alix Fox and Ollie Peart this year, we welcome back family mediator Nick Coffer - who confronts the strains of a post-divorce Christmas with compassionate advice - and we enjoy extraordinary live music from cellist and poet Sarah Smout. Plus, fresh updates from some of our favourite guests of 2026: Rebecca Dowdeswell, the woman who took on L’Oreal; Armin Samii, who created distance-monitoring app UberCheats; and wildland firefighter Nathan Bell. Until our next episode on January 10th, have a fantastic Christmas, a very Happy New Year, and - if you can afford to - remember to support our independent podcast to fund another great year of the show. x Olly, Alix, Ollie and Producer Matt P.S. Alix is running the London Marathon for Positive East. Support her here. Presenter: Olly Mann. Contributors: Ollie Peart, Alix Fox, Nick Coffer, Sarah Smout, Nathan Bell, Rebecca Dowdeswell, Armin Samii. Producer: Matt Hill. Theme Music…
People in this episode
Host: Olly Mann
Guests: Ollie Peart, Alix Fox, Nick Coffer, Sarah Smout
Topics covered
- Christmas
- music
- post-divorce advice
- live performance
- festive celebration
Keywords
- Christmas
- stress-free
- live music
- post-divorce
- festive
- advice
- celebration
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Positive East, L’Oreal, UberCheats, Rethink Audio
Books & works: Skies Over Cairo
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