Ring the Bells! Mistletoe and Vinyl! Hogswatch Extravaganza 2025!

Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/0yc6M0KPl9Q 

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel, have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction. 

This week: our annual Hogswatch Extravaganza! 

We’re reviewing Ring the Bells, C.K. McDonnell’s latest entry into the Stranger Times series, then having a delightful chat with Marc Burrows about his new book The Story of the Christmas No. 1: Mistletoe and Vinyl. 

• Find C.K. McDonnell here: https://whitehairedirishman.com/ 
• And take a look at everything Marc’s up to here: https://www.marcburrows.co.uk/ 

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Things we blathered on about:

Smug Christmas - TikTok 

Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes

Clair Obscur sweeps The Game Awards with nine wins

R.E.P.O. 

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Ring the Bells by C K McDonnell

Bonus: An Interview with C.K. McDonnell

Winter wonderland fails: from smoking elves to a 'dead Santa' 

‘People came just to see how awful it was’: from Wonkaland to Fyre, the inside story of festivals so bad they went viral

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The Story of the Christmas Number One: Mistletoe & Vinyl (signed edition) | ★ MARC BURROWS 

Mr Blobby Music Video [1993 Christmas Number 1]

Marc's Spotify playlists - find the Christmas STAGE 1, 2 & 3 playlists here

The Hives & Cyndi Lauper In A Christmas Duel 

Cliff Richard - The Millennium Prayer

Marie Antoinette: Teen Queen to Guillotine by Melanie Burrows

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Closure May Never Come - P D Doling

Ellen Mellor's books 

Music: Chris Collins, in