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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Origins of Boxing Day

Every year, primarily in Commonwealth countries, the day after Christmas is a legal holiday. 

It is a rather odd holiday in that it doesn’t celebrate anything or anyone in particular. Most people who celebrate the day have no clue what the origins of the holiday are, and many of the people who think they know the origins of the day are wrong.

Learn more about Boxing Day and how the day after Christmas became a holiday on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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the memory palace - Nate’s episode of the year 2022: In France or in Heaven

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

  • Blithe Field does RD 1

  • O Venezia, Venuga, Venusia by Nino Rota

  • Carthage by Hayden Perdido

  • Nice Breeze, Isn’t It? from Simon Rackham

  • Mystere by amiina

  • Blithe Field also does Racing Backward

  • as well as Prelude

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Influenced - New Gurus: 8. Prophets of Doom

Jessica Lanyadoo thinks civil war is coming — she has seen it in the stars. But it isn’t just astrologers who think we’re living through an age of upheaval. Peter Turchin, a Soviet-born professor who studies historical cycles, has already seen one political system collapse in his lifetime. He calls this decade the Turbulent Twenties.

Could our collective anxiety explain the rise of the new gurus?

The New Gurus is a series about looking for enlightenment in the digital world.

Written and presented by Helen Lewis

Series Producers: Morgan Childs and Tom Pooley Story consultant: Geoff Bird Original music composed by Paper Tiger Sound design and mix: Rob Speight Editor: Craig Templeton Smith

A Tempo & Talker production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

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Influenced - New Gurus: 7. Bitcoin FC

When Peter McCormack made a fortune investing in Bitcoin, he knew exactly how to spend it - buying his local football team. Helen Lewis travels to the ground of Real Bedford FC, where you can buy a half-time bacon butty in Bitcoin, to hear whether McCormack’s faith has been shaken by the "crypto winter".

How are McCormack and other crypto gurus like Layah Heilpern keeping the faith as the price of Bitcoin tumbles?

The New Gurus is a series about looking for enlightenment in the digital world.

Written and presented by Helen Lewis

Series Producers: Morgan Childs and Tom Pooley Story consultant: Geoff Bird Original music composed by Paper Tiger Sound design and mix: Rob Speight Editor: Craig Templeton Smith

A Tempo & Talker production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

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Influenced - New Gurus: 6. Daygamers and Daydreamers

At Oxford University, fellow students remember Tom Ralis as a quiet, nerdy biology student who played percussion in the college orchestra. But even then, he had one ambition - to become a guru.

He reinvented himself as Tom Torero, a pick-up artist who approached women in the street for dates - a practice known as “daygame”. His transformation led to tragedy.

The New Gurus is a series about looking for enlightenment in the digital world.

Written and presented by Helen Lewis

Series Producers: Morgan Childs and Tom Pooley Story consultant: Geoff Bird Original music composed by Paper Tiger Sound design and mix: Rob Speight Editor: Craig Templeton Smith

A Tempo & Talker production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

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Influenced - New Gurus: 5. Gazing into the Abyss

In 2018, a New York Times article anointed a group of taboo-breaking intellectual provocateurs as the 'Intellectual Dark Web'. David Fuller was one of those who found this loose grouping of dissident gurus like Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan and Sam Harris intoxicating – enough to leave the mainstream media and start his own YouTube channel.

But, four years on, he is left wondering - where did it all go wrong?

The New Gurus is a series about looking for enlightenment in the digital world.

Written and presented by Helen Lewis

Series Producers: Morgan Childs and Tom Pooley Story consultant: Geoff Bird Original music composed by Paper Tiger Sound design and mix: Rob Speight Editor: Craig Templeton Smith

A Tempo & Talker production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Our Book of Awesome’ celebrates the small joys that can actually make us happier

Bestselling author Neil Pasricha knows what it's like to feel down. Fifteen years ago, he was going through a difficult period in his life – so he started a blog to write down the ordinary, everyday things that brought him happiness: unsubscribing from annoying emails, finding the right tupperware lid on the first try, wearing warm undies out of the dryer. That positivity is the driving force behind Our Book of Awesome. In today's episode, he explains to Here & Now's Jane Clayson how those seemingly insignificant moments can add up to actually change our outlook on life.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Christmas Truce of 1914

In the very early morning of Christmas Day, 1914, something remarkable happened on the western front during the First World War. 

Soldiers in the trenches on both sides of no man’s land ceased fighting. Not only did they stop fighting, but they came out of their trenches to meet each other to celebrate Christmas. 

It has become one of the most mythologized events of the war and one of the oddest events in military history.

Learn more about the Christmas Truce of 1914 and what really happened on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Christmas Foods

Of the many traditions associated with the Christmas season, one of the biggest is food. Foods that are often eaten only at this time of the year and seldom outside of the season. 

Unlike other Christmas traditions, food can vary greatly in different places, as well as through time. Many Christmas foods eaten in the past can’t even be found today. 

Learn more about Christmas food and how these traditions differ around the world and throughout history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Christmas Songs and Christmas Carols

Every year, sometime around the end of summer, it seems, you start hearing the very familiar songs of Christmas. 

Every year, we hear the exact same songs, many of which have been passed down for centuries. 

Where did these songs come from, and why do we call Christmas songs “carols”? 

Learn more about Christmas carols and Christmas music and the origin of these songs on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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