The plant which encourages Christmas kisses.
More Xmas poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/12-poems-of-xmas
Old Year to New Year poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/old-year-become-new-year

Mistletoe by Walter De La Mare

3 professional singers entertain Xmas shoppers in Sydney. Produced for BBC Essex.
Another Oz Xmas report here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/xmas-audio-features

2021 XMAS Choralettes (1+2)

Reporting from Bondi Beach and chatting to a lifeguard at Christmas time in Australia 2020. Produced for BBC Essex.
Another Xmas report here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/xmas-audio-features

2020 XMAS in Bondi (1+2)

Broadcast on BBC Essex.
More Xmas radio features here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/xmas-audio-features

2023 XMAS Marrickville & Essex (A+B)

Broadcast on BBC Essex 25.12.2024
Thousands of miles from Essex on the Western Australian coast near Perth is Waikiki. Matt and Mary Wren moved here from Canewdon in south Essex more than a decade ago. They have been talking to our former colleague Anton Jarvis who now lives in Sydney on Australia’s east coast…
More Xmas radio features here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/xmas-audio-features

2024 XMAS WA Ex-Pats (A+B)

Fay Sober describes he Orthodox Jewish home and life in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.
Archive radio documentary series about belonging here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

Orthodox Jewish Home Faith feature (BBC Essex) 2002

Orthodox Jew Fay Sober from Westcliff describes the festival of Hanukkah

Jewish Hanukkah Faith feature (BBC Essex) 2002

BBC Essex Community Editor (loaned by the BBC to an Essex secondary school) decides to take up teaching full-time.
Take a journey to the Islands of Essex here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/islands-of-essex

Dave Monk 2-way w/AJ about teaching & leaving BBC (BBC Essex) 2005

When the Olympic Torch Relay came to Rayleigh in Essex (UK).
BBC Essex Voices Community Project 2003 highlights here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/voices-in-basildon-community

Olympic Torch Relay Rayleigh w/Dave Monk (BBC Essex) 2012

Southend's Orthodox Jewish community speak about their faith and togetherness. Contributors: Sybil Greenstein, Fay Sober and Otto Deutsch of the Southend & Westcliff Hebrew Congregation.
Broadcast on BBC Essex in the 'A Sense of Place' series in 2002.
Part of this series: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place
Another documentary about belonging here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/the-century-speaks-4-belonging

A Sense of Place: Shalom

A depiction of the nativity.
More Xmas poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/12-poems-of-xmas
Old Year to New Year poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/old-year-become-new-year

A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti

Ex-BBC Broadcaster readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. PLEASE SHARE LINKS with others. 
I’m a self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

Dave Monk 2-way w/AJ about teaching & leaving BBC (BBC Essex) 2005

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