17 November 2021
In this special Christmas episode Alma-Constance and Lucinda find out if there are any laws that affect Christmas. We talk to Russell Sandberg, Professor of Law at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University in Wales, who has a particular interest in law, history, and religion and who tells us why we have laws that affect how people celebrate events together.
He tells us about laws created to keep Christmas Day special and we hear about feasts, rude carols and what a court jester called Roland had to do for King John!
Russell also tells us about Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan parliament who banned Christmas in 1647 .
He tells us about his work as a professor of law teaching students and researching and campaigning for improvements in the law and he thinks that that we should always consider how laws affect children.
He also tells us that when he was 10 years old, he loved writing, watching TV and films and that he still loves superhero films!
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