You're listening to a special Christmas Day edition of the Briefing, first broadcast on 25th December, 2024 on Monocle Radio.
Hello and welcome to the Briefing, coming to you live from Studio One here at Midori House in London this Christmas Day 2024.
I'm Tom Edwards and may I wish you a very merry Christmas.
Coming up in today's program, we'll hear about the regional Christmas traditions of various of our highly cosmopolitan colleagues.
From the hills of Los Angeles to the wilds of the Pennines, Chris Lord will be here to share some of his northern Christmas secrets.
And a little later, of all the.
Ingredients that go into our fruitcake, whiskey is the most expensive as well as the hardest to obtain.
Some special Christmas readings from our very own Gillian de Bias.
That's all coming up right here on special Christmas Day edition of the Briefing, with me, Tom Edwards.
Well, a very warm welcome to this extra special Christmas Day edition of the Briefing here on Monocle Radio.
And I've managed to gather so many of the talents from places far and wide to join us to discuss what they're up to this hopefully sunny Christmas morning.
Let me introduce them to you.
Let's start over in St.
Moritz.
I Ho ho.
Hope we find you well, Tyler Brulee.
How the devil.
Oh, dear.
Good morning.
First, Merry Christmas, Tom.