9 December 2019
Episode 426
30 minutes
Will Hodgkinson and Georgie Rogers join Robert Bound to cock an ear to the year’s Christmas albums, which span country to heavy metal and include efforts by Kacey Musgraves, Bryan Adams, Chicago and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford.
9 December 2019
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