With clips from podcasts featuring Professor Scott Lucas, Dr Chris Allen, Dr Matt Bridge and Professor Isabelle Szmigin, Lucy and Andy (the other half of Ideas Lab) review some of podcasts from the last year in relation to what’s happened in the news since they were first broadcast. We also have a preview of a forthcoming podcast with Professor Wendy Scase, Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham, who's been working on a translation of the The Vernon Manuscript. Wendy reads The Birth of Christ in the Stable from the Estorie del Evangelie; first in medieval West Midlands English and then in modern English. Merry Christmas!