Today, Aled and Vivian talk about Christmas, but particularly the tension in the holiday between Christmas as a religious holiday or Christmas as a secular holiday. We reflect on how this tension is presented in popular culture, including Netflix rom-coms, Love Actually, and a Christmas Carol. We also talk about Christmas singles, and the importance of these in British Christmas culture, and the heavy presence of nativity plays in the UK. How secular, and how religious, is Christmas?

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