ABOUT THIS EPISODE
As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, a few people joined us for a cosy fireside chat to round off the year on Tuesday 19 December.
How do you write and address your Christmas cards? How do you know whose Christmas presents are whose? And what part does braille play in all of this?
We were joined by our expert Braille for Beginners team, Mel Pritchard and Chantelle Griffiths, to get the conversation started, and we heard plenty of ideas from the audience too, on a multitude of Christmas-themed topics.
English
United Kingdom
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