Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Episode Five: Turkey and Me

Sally Phillips reads a set of short stories and personal reflections on Christmas from the author of Love, Nina. Episode 5: On the impossibility of moist turkey.

Perennially dry turkeys, Christmas pudding fires, wonky Christmas trees and unreliable Santas - An Almost Perfect Christmas is a set of hilarious (and highly relatable) short stories and personal reflections on the joys and insanity of Christmas from the author of Love, Nina.

"The true heir to Sue Townsend" - Caitlin Moran
"Nina Stibbe is a national treasure" - Jon Ronson

Nina Stibbe was born in Leicester. She is the author of two works of non-fiction - Love, Nina and An Almost Perfect Christmas - and three novels: Man at the Helm, Paradise Lodge, and Reasons to be Cheerful, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2019.

Abridged by Sara Davies
Read by Sally Phillips
Produced by Mair Bosworth for ±«Óãtv Audio in Bristol

14 minutes

Last on

Christmas Day 2020 22:45

Broadcasts

  • Christmas Day 2020 12:04
  • Christmas Day 2020 22:45