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Love Actually (Christmas Classics Look Back)
Season 8, Ep. 3
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(Recorded in 2021) Give the carol singers at your door a quid and tell them to bugger off — it’s time for Hey Now! Hey Now! Christmas Classics, the festive movie review podcast you’ve been waiting for.
After approximately two years, seven months, three days, and (we suppose) an hour and thirty minutes, we are finally discussing Richard Curtis’ Love Actually (2003) — aka the undisputed Christmas rom-com chaos classic. With Bill Nighy GOLD, multiple intersecting plotlines, and an aggressively festive London, this Love Actually podcast episode is for anyone whose wasted heart loves baker boy hats and sexy men called Karl.
To us, this episode is perfect. 🎄 Pop us in your AirPods and get festive with one of the most iconic Christmas movie podcasts around — unless you live in Wandsworth… in which case, you should probably keep those AirPods safely in your bag.
Pro Tip: Best listened to with SOME DRUGS or a cup of tea and a chocolate digestive.
Find us on Instagram! @heynowheynow, @sandfordemily, @barneyleigh
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