Happy Valentine's Day, sugarplums! There's nothing like a love story to keep the Christmas spirit alive. For this installment of Story Time, I've chosen "As the Automobile Ran Down," a 1901 short story by Charles Loomis. 

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Survey: American's genuinely more excited about Valentine's Day than Christmas

Music in this Episode

• "Gaena" — Blue Dot Sessions, via Free Music Archive
• "Relaxing Piano Music" — Kevin MacLeod, via Incompetech

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Pack an umbrella and a jumper, because the next stop for Christmas Around the World is the UK. This month, Chantelle and her guest Nadine give us the history and traditions that make a British Christmas...British! 

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Links from this episode

• November 1st: The Start of the Christmas Season. Proven with Science!
• Victorian Christmas Dinner is Served, Mrs. Beeton Style!
• All Things Christmas

Music in this episode

• "Rule Brittania!" — United States Army Strings, via Wikimedia Commons
• "Sal's Piano Solo" — Blue Dot Sessions, via Free Music Archive
• "Glinka Nocturne" — Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, via Museopen
• "Shift of Currents" — Blue Dot Sessions, via Free Music Archive
• "Ink" — Chad Crouch, via Free Music Archive