Librivox has short Christmas short stories for your listening pleasure...
They also have the original stories in this collection: Check out Matthew and Luke. and more stuff here.
Catholics always believe Luke got the story from Jesus' mom, since twice he notes "she pondered these things in her heart": and she is about the only one who would know that.
and here in Asia, the word "christmas" is not taboo: even in the Buddhist Japan and the atheistic China they celebrate the secular holiday.
Here in the Philippines, it is a religious holiday, and everyone goes home to visit family...so the whole place essentially shuts down for a week.
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Pseudo astronomy podcast debunks a lot of the fanciful explanations for the Christmas star.
Since the Magi were zorastrian astrologists from Persia, I suspect it was a planetary conjuction, not a comet or supernova, and outside the expertise of scientific astronomy. One problem with the internet is that there is a lot of fake experts out there. Calling Professor Bulliet, the internet expert on Iran...
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HistoryExtra has a podcast Christmas quiz. Haven't listened to it yet.
FINEST KIND CLINIC AND FISHMARKET.... Discussing medicine, culture, and the joys of cooking Pansit.
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