Episode 267 – Yuletide Cheer! 2025

So Fill to Me the Parting Glass

Summary: We close out our year–and our show–with a final Yule seasonal episode featuring carols, poems, a history of wassail bowls, and some thoughts on what comes next for us. Thank you all for 15 wonderful years, and we hope you have a joyous holiday season and the happiest of new years.

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Play: Episode 267 – Yuletide Cheer! 2025
Stream (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/episode/145tnxn4m9x1lqsthmgJVJ?si=p_-mrfdfR22QCYh1P_JuPQ

Sources

Our holiday playlist this year is:

• “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” – Jack Halloran Singers – Archive.org 
• “Fum Fum Fum” – US Army Band (Public Domain)
• “I Saw Three Ships/Kerry Jig” – The Morrison Players – Audiosocket (licensed)
• Welcome and Hello! (Musical Background: “The Holly and the Ivy (Music Box Version)” CC 2.0 Pixabay)
• “The Night before Christmas” – Ernest Hare – Archive.org 
• Deck the Halls – Mark Petrie – Audiosocket (Licensed)
• “The Boar’s Head Carol” – The Pagan Carolers (Archive.org)
• “Mrs Fogerty’s Christmas” – Trillium – Audiosocket (Licensed)
• A Brief History of Wassailing Bowls (via The National Trust of the UK)
• Gratitude and Blessings (Musical Background: “O Christmas Tree” (Music Box version) – Pixabay)
• Somerset Wassail – The Pagan Carolers (Archive.org)
• New Year’s Wishes – What Comes Next for Us? (Musical Background: “The Holly and the Ivy (Music Box Version)” CC 2.0 Pixabay)
• Auld Lang Syne (A Reading) – The Poetry of Robert Burns – Frederick Worlock and CRM Brookes – Archive.org
• “The Parting Glass” (Traditional) – Cory Thomas Hutcheson
• “Da Day Dawn,” by Samantha Gillogly (artist permission)

Transcripts are available on our Transcripts page (NOTE: No transcript available for this episode)

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