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b'In GBA 141 we get better acquainted with Christmas (again). It\'s the 2013 Christmas Special: A festive curiosity once again full of intimacy, doubt, shared history, music & cheer.\\n\\nThis year we join the GBA house band and A Room Full of Friends to sing some Christmas songs and talk some Christmas talk. This year\'s Christmas special is designed to be: \\n\\n"Like an episode of Killroy where the issue being discussed is Christmas. With songs."\\n\\nAs part of the house band I am joined by:\\n\\nAsia - (GBA not yet aired)\\nSam - https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-99-sam\\nGeorge - https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george\\nhttps://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-106-jack-and-george\\n\\nWith special guest Harv who shared a song and recorded the room: https://twitter.com/SteveHSoundtech\\n\\nThe rest of the room full of friends are:\\n\\nJen: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes/\\nDad: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes/\\nTony: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-35-tony\\nLiz: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz\\nChris: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-25-chris\\nNina: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-132-nina\\nNatti: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-98-natti\\nAlex: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-80-alex\\n\\nCharities plugged at the end of the episode are:\\n\\nCrisis at Christmas: http://www.crisis.org.uk/pages/christmas.html\\n\\nCore Arts: http://www.corearts.co.uk/\\n\\nArts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/\\n\\nSt Mungos: http://www.mungos.org/\\n\\nSelf Determination: http://developmentforafrica.org/selfdetermination.shtml\\n\\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/charity/against_1.shtml\\n\\nRed and Black social club: http://www.soundthealarm.org.uk/red-black-social-club-septembe/\\n\\nGBC Legal: http://greenandblackcross.org/legal\\n\\n\\nPrevious incarnations of A Room Full of Friends:\\n\\nhttps://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-2-a-room-full-of\\n\\nhttps://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1 \\n\\nFor other GBA takes on Christmas:\\n\\nThe first GBA Christmas special focused on how I learned to love (albeit a highly neurotic and ambiguous love) the season despite its past crimes against my childhood. Here it is: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-christmas-special\\n\\nThe second was a longform true story of the trip I took to Amsterdam with my mum in 2005. Warning it could be described as NSFW: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-91-getting-better\\nI made this for Christmas this year: https://soundcloud.com/the-dave/time-to-be-nice\\n\\nI made this for a Christmas a few years back: Ghosts of... youtu.be/XqCKfOwA9vE\\n\\nThis is a true story I told at Spark London that focuses on an incident that is touched on as back story in this episode: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/two-cathedrals-david-pickering/\\n\\nHappy Christmas and a Merry New Year!\\n\\n(There will be no GBA next week. It will return on the 2nd of January 2013.)\\n\\nHelp more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?\\n\\nFollow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!'