November '24: A Christmas story

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November '24: A Christmas story

A sneak preview of this year's offering from the Christmas Stories podcast

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Nov 29, 2024

As regular readers will be aware, Metropolitan editor and contributor (respectively),

Tobias Sturt

and

Jon Millington

have a seasonal side project.

Every Christmas, Tobias writes a new Christmas story and then Jon reads it and they release it as a podcast of 24 short episodes, one a day for the first 24 days of December.

This year’s story is Last Christmas in Hexwood, an excessively cosy and increasingly lunatic story of talking animals, a naughty child and an unlikely plan to kidnap Santa Claus.

You can subscribe to the story on the Christmas Stories Substack, Spotify, YouTube or anywhere you get podcasts, and you can also find the whole audiobook on Spotify or Audible.

You can find all these links, or just listen there, on the Christmas Stories website.

You find out more about the inspiration for the stories in this Metropolitan piece from last year:

The other Christmas stories

Tobias Sturt

December 2, 2023

Well, it’s almost time for the annual folderol to begin once more: the time-honoured ritual of trying to find entertainment that is both appropriately Christmassy and actually enjoyable.

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