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Tempting Treats & Festive Feats: Christmas Shopping Down the Ages

    History Extra | 11 December 2024 | 0h 38m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
    Interview with Annie Gray discusses our historical festive spending habits, from the horrors of visiting a Victorian butcher’s shop to enormous seasonal turkey parades and outrageous stunts involving elephants. Draws from her book The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street.

    The Company That Cancelled Christmas

      Cautionary Tales | 9 December 2022 | 0h 25m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
      Uses the story of the failure of savings club Farepak to explore the psychology of our frenzied Christmas spending, especially the work of Scroogenomics author Joel Waldfogel, and suggests ways we could improve Christmas gifting.