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Dec 2022
47m 36s

2022 Christmas Crackers with Ed and Geof...

Cheerful
About this episode

Hello! We’ve decked the loft with boughs of holly and after two years, Ed and Geoff are finally reunited for some Christmas fun and frolics. Traditional board game proceedings have been temporarily suspended, as we ask some friends of the pod to tell us their reasons to be cheerful. And boy, it’s a real bagamashings. We hear from Jon Ronson, Self Esteem, Davina McCall and Michael Douglas, Ayesha Hazarika, Tom Allen, and many more…


Find out which celebs sent us a message from bed, who told Ed he had the weakest handshake in Western Europe, and what Dan the Lifeguard really sounds like.


With thanks to all our cracker message senders and listeners in 2022!


If you want to get in touch with the podcast you can email us at reasons@cheerfulpodcast.com or through our website.



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