(13 Dec 2024)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 12 November 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) John Boyega, actor:
"Holiday tradition is going down to Nigeria. We go down to Nigeria for something called Dirty December. Everybody from the diaspora flies over to Lagos. They do some time in Ghana and sometimes go to South Africa. So everybody basically who is a dual citizen like myself, travels back home to enjoy themselves for Christmas."
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Padma Lakshmi, author / TV presenter:
"Yeah, I mean, on Christmas Day, I have my whole extended family at home and we do a big roast, but we are all wearing pyjamas or cosy onesies or (unknown) or whatever, and we really just spend the whole day doing nothing but eating, drinking and playing games together. It’s not fancy. It’s not formal. We all just like spending quiet time together without too many responsibilities."
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London – 18 November 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Slater, actor:
"Chinese food and movies. I grew up Jewish, and we would go to get Chinese food and watch movies every Christmas because it was pretty empty."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bowen Yang, actor:
"I don’t… I’m not going to do New Year’s resolutions. My favorite holiday tradition is, I work outside the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. And I just I love seeing the tree light up."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Goldblum, actor:
"I like Boxing Day. And on Boxing Day I always sing the Canadian national anthem. Okay. That’s the tradition."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Yeoh, actor:
"The only tradition that we have is family. So I always go back to Malaysia to be with my mom."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manchester – 10 November 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Ogden, recording artist, Blossoms:
"My brother’s getting married in New York. So I’m going to New York for Christmas. So that’s quite exciting. What about you guys?"
Joe Donovan: "I’m going to go wild camping in the Lake District. Polar opposites there."
Charlie Salt: "I’m going to Scotland. I’m just going to disappear."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 22 November 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine Waterston, actor:
"I make crepes on Christmas morning, which is actually a horrible thing to make on Christmas Day because you’ve got like 20 people in the house and you have to make them one by one. So maybe if you’re trying to avoid your family, it’s a really good solution. You just face the stove and flip."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 10 December 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Idris Elba, actor:
"I like pulling crackers and telling the jokes, put the hat on, tell a joke, what’s in there? A nail file? I love that."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 4 December 2024
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Cox, actor:
"The one great thing about living in America, you know, because I live in America and I live here, I live in both countries, but I’m not religious. But the one festivity I love is Thanksgiving, which is an American thing. You know, we don’t have Thanksgiving – we give thanks at old left, but you know, we don’t have Thanksgiving. And I think the Thanksgiving where you sit down and you give thanks for your year, I think it’s a wonderful thing. I love Thanksgiving. I think it’s a much greater festivity festival than really Christmas. Christmas is the one everybody knows about. But there’s something real about Thanksgiving because it is about giving thanks, giving thanks for what you’ve learned, what you’ve gained, even what you’ve lost."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gaia Wise and Laurence Ubong Williams, actors:
Ubong Williams: "Do tell. Do tell."
Wise: "Well I’ll have a chat with him."
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