133. Christmas churches

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Rachel recommends Claire Tomalin's biography of Charles Dickens when discussing A Christmas Carol, saying it has loads of information and she would recommend Claire Tomalin's biography on absolutely anything

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Mentioned alongside other biographies by Claire Tomalin as examples of her excellent biographical work

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Mentioned alongside other biographies by Claire Tomalin as examples of her excellent biographical work

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Discussed in the context of M.R. James's Christmas tradition of reading ghost stories; Rachel quotes from Daryl Jones's introduction to the collected edition describing the typical M.R. James story structure

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Mentioned when discussing St. James's Burton Lazarus church in Leicestershire, where Count Louis Zabrowski (owner of the real Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car) is buried - Ian Fleming wrote his novel based on this car

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Rachel mentions Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising books when discussing the Welsh Mari Lwyd tradition, noting there's a frightening scene in the book where characters are trapped in a church while demons bash on the windows outside

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Extensively discussed as one of the most beloved Victorian ghost stories, with details about its publication history, adaptation count, and the church locations featured in the story