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With the school holidays upon us, and the Mosen Explosion exploding on Mushroom FM on a Monday morning in New Zealand, it means we get some intensive banana time. And this week, it's my pleasure to welcome the highly liberated Richard Mosen who'll be co-hosting the show.

Hark I tell you! Hark at once! Axel can't be with us this week to take us all through the 80s, so it's your old friends Jonnie and Bonathan, standing in again for two hours of ding dong merrily on Mushroom. Right after Brian has finished doing number twos on his music machine, we'll be here to bring some joy to your world as you contemplate the remaining shopping, food preparations, and ensuring that you've cast your vote in the Mushroom FM holiday countdown.

The Mosen explosion is back, and it's one of my very favourite days of the year. One of the wonderful things about having Mushroom FM back on the air, is the resurrection of many wonderful Christmas traditions. One of those is of course the Mushroom FM holiday countdown, and many of you have already cast your votes, for which we are grateful. If by chance you've not voted yet, come one, come all, have your say, and be in to win $500 at http://www.mushroomfm.com/countdown2015.

Our November Mushroom FM book of the month was "the woman who stole my life" by Marian Keyes. Already, there has been some lively discussion about the book on Twitter.

But now, it's time to take that discussion into the Mushroom FM book club chat room for our official monthly meeting.

We'd love to hear what you thought of the book, and you can join in the discussion on Saturday at noon Eastern, 5 p.m. UK.

At 4 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. in the UK, I'm going to be in the zone again!
Unfortunately, wee Anne Cosgrove who was looking forward to being with you again after a week away, has been stricken! Stricken I tell you! She has a horrible cold, and is not fit to talk, so I'll be talking and playing music instead.

Hi everyone, it's hard to believe that it's less than 48 hours since votes for the Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown went live, and I'd like to give you a quick update.

At Mushroom FM, we've always been full of fun at the festive season. This year, we're keeping up much cherished Mushroom FM traditions, while at the same time freshening them up with a few twists. We have plenty to unveil over the next little while, but today we're proud to announce our 2015 holiday countdown.

Listeners who've been part of the Mushroom Crowd for a while will remember that we launched this countdown tradition in 2011. In 2012, we improved on it even further. And this year, it's a spectacular.

Oh boy! I am looking forward to getting behind that microphone this week. But I look forward to getting behind that microphone every week. This week though, we have plenty of awesomeness on the show. First of all, Mushroom FM's first big event since our return will be unveiled. And it's a really good one. It could totally change your Christmas for the better.

Every year on Mushroom FM, the perennial question comes up. When shall we start playing Christmas music? When?

We are back, back we are, for another edition of the Mosen Explosion, another Mosen Explosion edition.