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Hi everyone and merry Christmas!

Boy, have I got an incredible festive fun combination for you! Exercising your hard-won right to vote, holiday music and partying!

Mushroom FM runs a fun and very popular tradition every year where we ask listeners to vote for their top 10 holiday songs, and we play the top 100 as tabulated by a fancy algorithm. People's preferences change from year to year so we never know what the countdown is going to sound like, and after another unusual and difficult year, we sure could use a little levity and companionship.

It’s Jonathan Mosen here to tell you about the wonderful songs and stories we have for you this week on Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family, only on Mushroom Escape. And now that we’re into December, I’m digging out some classic Christmas material.

Greetings! Sara Hillis here to tell you what's coming up on this week's edition of Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's Folk and Celtic music show! As it is now officially December, we're getting out the musical advent calendar and opening a few squares to kick off the holiday season in good earnest! And yes, being earnest is extremely important.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Home Alone 2: Lost in New York from 1992, Fred Claus from 2007 and Pluto's Christmas Tree from 1952.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes.
It is the sequel to Home Alone (1990) and is the second film in the Home Alone franchise.

This week on deep dive we enjoy the songwriting, singing, and instrumentation of talented Australian country and western singer John Williamson. We have an interview with an old man emu, enjoy a chandelier of stars, meet a Mallee boy and hear about the woes of Bill the Cat.

Join me at 4 PM Eastern on Monday, which is 8 AM Tuesday in eastern Australia. Or 6AMeastern Wednesday, which is 10 PM Wednesday in eastern Australia. Just tell your smart speaker of choice to play mushroom FM and you will be there.

Whether you think of him as the quiet Beatle, the spiritual Beatle, or the late blooming Beatle, George Harrison was one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century. Not only were the Beatles the soundtrack of their generation, their music has proven to be timeless, more popular now than ever.

On 29 November, it will be 20 years since George’s death. It was one of those flashbulb moments for many of us. We can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when the news came through.

It’s Jonathan Mosen here to tell you about the wonderful songs and stories we have for you this week on Small World, the kids’ programme for the whole family, only on Mushroom Escape.

Hello, hello! Sara Hillis here to tell you about this week's episode of Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's Folk and Celtic music show! As Saint Andrew's Day is coming up on November 30, and as Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, it made sense to me to play a relatively all-Scottish show for this week. Along with all the great Scottish music in general, I'm including a specific group of song-pairs with the same melody but with re-purposed lyrics.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Holiday from 2006 and Home Alone from 1990.
The Holiday is a 2006 romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Nancy Meyers.

This week on deep dive we enjoy the diverse talents of singer and actor from Australia Kylie Minogue. We get lucky lucky lucky, do the locomotion, and really enjoy the dance moves and music.

You can listen to deep dive at 4 PM Eastern on Monday, which is 8 AM in eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, which is 10 PM in eastern Australia. This is the first program of our pre-Christmas Australian extravaganza.