Finding Father Christmas 2025

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00:00:00Satsang with Mooji

00:00:30Peepee!

00:02:00Oh, Christmas tree, the leaves are so unchanging.

00:02:05Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree, the leaves are so unchanging.

00:02:13How often has the Christmas tree afforded me so incredibly?

00:02:21Oh, Christmas tree, oh, Christmas tree, much pleasure thou canst give me.

00:02:29You have to tell him.

00:02:49You do. This is the year.

00:03:19Down through the dip here with good fencing.

00:03:21First cup of stocking a fiddle now.

00:03:23Only a man I feel it well.

00:03:26If her and darling have left that pride.

00:03:28Watch out the lover and shut her eyes.

00:03:30Ho, ho, ho, who would you go?

00:03:33Ho, ho, who would you go?

00:03:35Up on the house of good fencing.

00:03:37Can't pay a chicken.

00:03:49Chris, you're at an age now where, as a parent,

00:03:59it's my job to tell you certain facts that you might not want to hear.

00:04:05Go. Relax.

00:04:08We've done this all in school.

00:04:10You have?

00:04:11Yeah. Last kid.

00:04:13Oh.

00:04:14Oh.

00:04:16Oh.

00:04:17That is a weight off.

00:04:20I can't tell you.

00:04:22Oh, your face.

00:04:24I don't think I've ever heard you say sperm.

00:04:27What?

00:04:28Oh, God.

00:04:30You want to teach me to put on a contraception?

00:04:32God, no, Chris.

00:04:33No.

00:04:34That's...

00:04:35That's not what this is about.

00:04:37It's about Father Christmas.

00:04:40What do you mean?

00:04:42Is he all right?

00:04:43Did something happen?

00:04:44Yeah.

00:04:45Yeah.

00:04:46Well, no.

00:04:47I mean...

00:04:49Remember the snow on the roof on Christmas morning?

00:04:52And the sleigh tracks?

00:04:55And the soot in the grate?

00:04:57And the presents under the tree?

00:04:59Well...

00:05:01Well, that was all me.

00:05:04I did that.

00:05:06You're Father Christmas.

00:05:07You've been drawing happiness to billions of children all over the world.

00:05:18No.

00:05:19That's not what I mean.

00:05:20Dad, I'm not being funny, but I really can't see you getting down our chimney.

00:05:24Then I'll back up it.

00:05:25I've seen you on the monkey balls.

00:05:27Chris, we had the chimney sealed off before you were born, when we had the gas fire put

00:05:32in.

00:05:33What about the carrots?

00:05:35And the single malt?

00:05:38I suppose that was all you as well, was it?

00:05:41Yes.

00:05:42Obviously.

00:05:43I'm sorry, Chris, but he isn't real.

00:05:50Father Christmas doesn't exist.

00:05:53I mean, think about it.

00:05:55A billion children.

00:05:56All over the world.

00:05:58I mean, it is physically impossible to deliver that many presents in a single night.

00:06:03You would say that.

00:06:05You look for the Royal Mail.

00:06:07He probably uses different software.

00:06:11And what software makes a reindeer fly at warp speeds and lights up his hooter?

00:06:17Nothing that's commercially available, but...

00:06:20And how does a man of that girth fit down a chimney?

00:06:24Even if you haven't even got one.

00:06:26And to never be seen.

00:06:28I'm sorry, Chris.

00:06:30I know this time of year is special to you.

00:06:33But you're old enough now to know the truth.

00:06:50I'm sorry.

00:06:52I knew it's being here.

00:06:54I was waiting for you.

00:06:56I was waiting for you.

00:06:58You told me that this is like a good day for you.

00:07:01Now I'm a good guy.

00:07:03I know you're already in the USA.

00:07:04I don't know who he is.

00:07:05Come on, my Henry.

00:07:06You heard that.

00:07:07I'm a boy.

00:07:08I don't know who he is.

00:07:09I know you're a boy.

00:07:10You did not know him.

00:07:11I'm a boy!

00:07:12You did not know him.

00:07:13I har na I do?

00:07:14You're nice to know him.

00:07:15He's a boy.

00:07:16You're a boy.

00:07:17You're a boy.

00:07:18you'd be able to explain it wouldn't you if you were here but you're not

00:07:27you're probably at lords or in norfolk or a book library

00:07:37what's this egg manjo

00:08:01i've had a little time to think about what you said uh and i did it i do it's been a rough year

00:08:16seriously fun for the ages and it's not like there isn't stiff competition

00:08:24professionally you were laid off then fired then you became a postman

00:08:29to be demoted almost immediately to the sorting office medically although

00:08:36wasn't proved serious in the end you had to undergo a number of probes

00:08:43that people tended to laugh at rather than feel sorry for you for it was during that health scare

00:08:49that you lost your place on the pub darts team to a man who was almost double your age he was so

00:08:55talented and it's it's hard to see a way back romantically i'm sorry but it's been a complete

00:09:03and utter disaster um miss bailey who lives almost opposite who you like and and i like even though

00:09:11she teaches me double science she asked you on a date back in april and you still haven't called her

00:09:17back i'm sorry to interrupt but is there a point of all this or are you just trying to boost morale

00:09:22yeah yeah there is and the point is isn't it it's only natural after the year you've had to lose a

00:09:29little bit of that christmas feeling oh chris come on please to become jaded and cynical i'm not this

00:09:37again dad you're wrong i love you but you're wrong father christmas israel and i'm going to prove it to you

00:09:52good morning chris morning miss

00:10:22hey what i'll do with this one mate

00:10:32follow me i'll let you into a little secret

00:10:43in there

00:10:53don't worry you get used to it

00:10:58what happens to all the shredded paper it's put in the back of a blue lorry and then no one knows

00:11:02to be fair we live in such a cynical age i'm surprised anyone still writes the father christmas

00:11:09my boy does i thought you said he was 16 and doing his gcses he is

00:11:22the the

00:11:26oh

00:11:28the

00:11:28cryptozoology is essentially the study of

00:11:32creatures that are said to exist but are unproven undocumented by science the creatures that are

00:11:38studied are called cryptids and familiar with loch ness monster chupacabra things like that

00:11:45and within cryptozoology it just doesn't get any bigger than bigfoot because of all

00:11:51cryptids out there bigfoot has the most sightings sightings by very credible people

00:12:02that this occurred in alaska in an area you know the population density is like

00:12:09funny it's me chris okay good yeah i thought so

00:12:13and another and another wait one more

00:12:22and open sesame i need a favour

00:12:36uh sorry love i'm on break all right look i'm like a long distance lorry driver i have to take

00:12:45a break every 45 minutes every four and a half hours sorry it's regulations merry christmas oh

00:12:51no no no no no no no you are banned okay i no i told you last year that was the last year you're

00:12:58too old for this now mate i just want to ask you a question

00:13:06what's your mic for i don't do podcast i've got my reputation to think about yeah chris wants

00:13:14to prove to his dad that father christmas is real oh my god how many times do i have to tell

00:13:19you mate i'm not father christmas okay this beard isn't real and i'm a muslim okay but what about

00:13:28the porch yeah the paunch is real obviously i know you're not father christmas i'm not stupid

00:13:34it's only what seven more sleeps until the big day he's not going to be here is he this is crunch

00:13:40time he's got more important things to be doing what do you want to ask me last year when i was here

00:13:46i overheard you talking to one of the single mums who was really impressed about how you knew steven fry

00:13:54you know steven fry yeah i mean i wouldn't say he's a close friend but yeah no that is literally

00:13:59what you said yeah he's more of a close friend of like a casual acquaintance but what's that got to

00:14:04do with anything steven fry is like god to my dad he will listen to anything he says i mean i won't

00:14:11necessarily understand it but he will listen so the best way to prove to my dad that father christmas is

00:14:17real is to have steven fry say that he is i just need you to introduce us right i'm gonna level with

00:14:23you okay honestly honestly i don't really know him that well i feel like you don't know him at all

00:14:29no no although i did bump into him in a sainsbury's car park shut up what was he like he is so nice

00:14:37like and it was my fault because i was reversing didn't realize it was in first gear bumped into him

00:14:41oh my god steven fry so you bumped into him in a car yeah did you just want details well no i think

00:14:50he's married isn't he insurance details insurance details right uh he didn't have his details on him

00:14:55so he wrote his name and address down and then he put them into my phone got it in my phone

00:15:11a big red bin of shredded dreams coming through

00:15:19hello oh mr matty yeah it's georgina bailey from the school and the house almost opposite

00:15:30georgina hi i'm i'm so glad you called um i've been meaning to call you back oh nick

00:15:38no honestly i have it's just been a really hectic couple of eight months yeah that's not that's

00:15:43that's not the reason that i'm calling oh it's chris he didn't come into school today

00:15:49i wouldn't have called it's just that i i saw him when i left school this morning it looked like he was on

00:15:54the way in i know it's the last day of terms yeah no thank you it's good to know that you're

00:16:01really on it over there um no um he actually had a doctor's appointment today and that's why he

00:16:09couldn't make it in yeah it's nothing serious he's just got a rash on his it's okay don't need to know

00:16:15the details okay listener so we are currently outside a house of steven fry in a yellow van

00:16:31uh don't i'm not going to you in fact what are you doing this way he can't track you

00:16:43that is really annoying not to mention so irresponsible

00:17:05now this is why they tell you to back everything up in case a stray lunatic decides to literally

00:17:11eat your data i've seen it happen anyway thanks for me your dad doesn't have a clue where we are

00:17:22oh hello uncle nicholas i might have known you'd have something to do with this

00:17:27what even is this like sorry can you can you do that one more time i'm just i forgot to click record

00:17:32don't tell me you bumped off school to do a podcast is that what i don't i can't see anyone who

00:17:41who can't you see oh oh it's it's him what why how huh oh it's all right breathe in and out

00:17:55in and out breathe it's all right chris wants to ask steven five father christmas is real oh

00:18:01chris i thought we discussed this we did again i said that i'd get you proof this is it

00:18:07if steven five says that father christmas is real then perhaps you'll believe me all right

00:18:11and if he says he isn't will you believe me

00:18:21if i'd have known i would have put on a different shirt okay you need to calm down

00:18:25i need the toilet is what i need

00:18:26oh i'm sorry i i thought you were carol singers

00:18:37good king whence the sluss looked out on the feast of steven

00:18:44gag please we all have to wait in the car sorry we're not carol singers i'm just a huge fan that i've

00:18:51watched everything you've ever done on television i've listened to all your books even the one

00:18:54about ties isn't that adorable well what impeccable taste you have now uh if you don't mind i'm just

00:19:01going to call the police no please we we literally just want to ask you one question can i use your

00:19:05toilet that wasn't it i'm gonna close the door now goodbye wait

00:19:13is father christmas real

00:19:18i'm sorry what did you say the name was father christmas

00:19:23you have heard your father christmas

00:19:24yes no i mean i thought you said oh my goodness i left the oven on goodbye

00:19:30stephen please it will only take a minute

00:19:33come on it is christmas

00:19:42it's just as i imagined it

00:19:46is father christmas real

00:19:50in order to deliver all those satsumas and pairs of socks father christmas would have to travel jolly

00:19:56fast but how jolly show your workings fry certainly sir well speed as we know is distance

00:20:07divided by time by time and we calculate distance by seeing the number of households that celebrate

00:20:16christmas which is roughly 45 of the population 8.2 billion by the average number of people in a

00:20:24household which is approximately 3.95 3.95 yep that gives us 934 million 177

00:20:371215 households basically a billion basically a billion dad final warning by the global

00:20:47average spacing so 186 million kilometers plus change which is more than 100 return trips to the moon

00:20:56so all that distance over time and how much time does father christmas have at his disposal

00:21:04well i'm gonna say 30 hours if you think of when the last children go to sleep on christmas island

00:21:09and the first children wake up in american samoa it gives us a total of 6 million 277

00:21:19thousand 848 kilometers per hour well that is jolly fast like you said yeah not as fast as uh the speed of

00:21:32light mind you but alas the air resistance alone will be enough to instantly vaporize any normal human

00:21:38being and actually these figures are a trifle optimistic because they don't take into account

00:21:44the fact that father christmas has to stop a billion times to deliver the actual presence that means

00:21:51constant acceleration and deceleration not to mention going down all those chimneys and up them again

00:21:57and it just stretches credibility even further doesn't it how does he do that especially when

00:22:01there is no chimney and given the fact that he is pun intended widely reported to be generously

00:22:07proportioned hi yeah well um thank you steven it's been really helpful that's not everything well it's

00:22:17enough to be getting on with so what else were you gonna say nothing really that was that was the nub

00:22:24please tell me well it's just that based on the lack of verifiable sightings and bona fide photographic

00:22:32evidence we have to conclude that father christmas does all this um while remaining completely invisible

00:22:40i'd like to go home now please yeah of course mate yeah um let's get you out

00:22:51uh excuse me chris um i just wanted to add that until 1903 and the wright brothers powered human flight

00:23:14was thought to be impossible but it wasn't we just didn't have a proper understanding

00:23:21of aerodynamics and propulsion and three-axis steering we had to wait for the science to catch up

00:23:27and what i'm saying is all of that in there might not be impossible it might just be that we can't

00:23:35explain it not yet we have to wait until we can see the bigger picture oh and uh talking pictures i

00:23:46i don't know i thought perhaps you might like to have this scary oh i would oh look at that wow oh that

00:23:53is the best christmas present ever oh i feel a bit embarrassed now really there's no reason to be

00:24:03if i don't know if i'd have known i probably wouldn't have taken that

00:24:13have you taken anything else

00:24:16god uncle nicholas

00:24:27god uncle nicholas

00:24:39hello no no i i i didn't say anything i promise

00:24:53in fact i said the exact opposite

00:24:58i was very careful

00:25:09i had to go to the doctors yeah no it was good thanks yeah no they um

00:25:28they gave him a cream

00:25:34merry christmas merry eczema

00:25:43merry x eczema xmas i just got it because of the because of the rash

00:25:58like

00:26:04the

00:26:04it

00:26:05there

00:26:05okay

00:26:07and

00:26:13all

00:26:15of

00:26:19Good night, son.

00:26:46Good night, Dad.

00:26:46Chris, I know you're disappointed, but this doesn't mean that Christmas is cancelled.

00:26:54We can still do all the other stuff.

00:26:56Everything else will stay exactly the same.

00:26:58Yeah, but it won't be the same, will it?

00:27:00Which comes to 934,177,215 households, so basically a billion.

00:27:20Basically a billion.

00:27:25We have to wait until we can see the bigger picture.

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00:30:06Oh, my God.

00:30:36Oh, my God.

00:31:06Oh, my God.

00:31:08Professor Hannah Fry?

00:31:09Yeah?

00:31:11Relax, relax.

00:31:12We just want to ask you a couple of questions.

00:31:15Oh, you're doing a podcast.

00:31:17Oh, I love a podcast.

00:31:19We're trying to find proof that Father Christmas is real.

00:31:22Oh, okay.

00:31:23No, I'm sorry.

00:31:24I cannot help you with that.

00:31:34Where did you get this?

00:31:35Journalist never reveals their source.

00:31:37Steven gave you this, didn't he?

00:31:39Yeah, 100%.

00:31:40Yeah.

00:31:41I'm not a journalist.

00:31:42He's such a blabbermouth.

00:31:43What else did he tell you?

00:31:44Nothing.

00:31:45I don't find that very difficult to believe.

00:31:48Well, he said that it might not be impossible for Father Christmas to climb down some knees that aren't even there.

00:31:54Just that we can't explain it yet.

00:31:56Uh-huh.

00:31:57I mean, he can't explain it yet.

00:31:59Do you know that he failed O-level physics?

00:32:03Does that mean, uh, that you can explain it?

00:32:10Well, yeah.

00:32:11Of course I can explain it.

00:32:12It's just, you know.

00:32:13Yeah, you don't want to.

00:32:15Yeah, I don't want to.

00:32:16I mean, obviously she can.

00:32:18She just doesn't want to?

00:32:19I can actually explain it, guys.

00:32:21No, I believe you.

00:32:22Professor?

00:32:23Excuse me.

00:32:24What are these fake air quotes?

00:32:26I'm an actual professor.

00:32:28Okay, Chris.

00:32:29Come on.

00:32:30Let's go.

00:32:31Oh, have you still got that number for Professor Brian Cox?

00:32:33Okay.

00:32:34Yeah, somewhere.

00:32:35Okay.

00:32:36It's macroscopic quantum tunneling.

00:32:38Just remind me what that is again.

00:32:40Okay, so Father Christmas turns himself and his presents

00:32:43into a single quantum object

00:32:45and that way he can pass through solid walls.

00:32:48Like a ghost.

00:32:49No, nothing like a ghost.

00:32:50This is the quantum world.

00:32:51It's where particles don't exist at a single point.

00:32:54They exist everywhere and nowhere all at once

00:32:56in like a cloud of probability that spreads through space.

00:32:59And that way a particle could be on the roof of a house,

00:33:03but it could also be inside the house

00:33:06underneath the Christmas tree.

00:33:08That's quantum tunneling.

00:33:10I see.

00:33:11And how would you travel fast enough

00:33:14to be able to deliver all those presents in a single night?

00:33:17Oh, he's using an Alcubier drive, right?

00:33:19He's engulfing his sleigh in a bubble of Minkowski space,

00:33:23and that way he doesn't need to feel any of the G-forces.

00:33:26Uh, okay.

00:33:31I, uh, I forgot.

00:33:33Actually, I...

00:33:34I need to go.

00:33:35I've got a lecture to do.

00:33:36Sorry, I...

00:33:37How does he make himself turn invisible?

00:33:41That was weird.

00:33:57I know, right?

00:33:58Since when did the pencil moustache come back into fashion?

00:34:01Before that, I mean.

00:34:03That photograph, it really put her on eggs.

00:34:07That's it?

00:34:08We need to talk to the other people in the photograph.

00:34:11That's what we're doing, Holly.

00:34:13You've got to call them.

00:34:14You've got to call them right now.

00:34:16How?

00:34:17We're going to have a number.

00:34:18Or a SIM card.

00:34:20Oh, sorry, mate. One second.

00:34:22Yeah, I better get this.

00:34:23This might be for me.

00:34:26Hello?

00:34:27Yeah, speaking.

00:34:31Oh, hello, Dame Maggie Adair in Pocock.

00:34:36Now, did she get your number?

00:34:39No, ask her.

00:34:41Yeah, no, sorry, still here.

00:34:45She wants to meet.

00:34:52I'm not sure this is a good idea.

00:35:04Yeah, that's what makes it a good idea.

00:35:06She wouldn't ask to meet in a place like this

00:35:08unless we were dangerously close to the truth.

00:35:22He's Father Crisp is real.

00:35:38He's real?

00:35:39If you believe he's real.

00:35:41That's good enough for me.

00:35:43But my dad wants proof.

00:35:45What makes you think I can help?

00:35:52Oh, Stephen, he can't help himself.

00:35:59Have you met the other two?

00:36:01Professor Hannah Frye, but not Foxy.

00:36:04He's a hard man to find.

00:36:06You don't know where he is.

00:36:07I haven't seen Foxy since this photograph was taken.

00:36:12So, Hannah, what did you two discuss?

00:36:15Oh, just macroscopic quantum tunneling.

00:36:18Just how Father Crispus gets down the chimneys.

00:36:20Anything else?

00:36:21She touched on the, um...

00:36:23The Alan...

00:36:24Alan...

00:36:25Alan...

00:36:26The...

00:36:27The Alan Cube...

00:36:28The Alcubier Drive?

00:36:29Yes, the one.

00:36:30And did it make sense?

00:36:32Um...

00:36:33Well, I'd be lying if I said it all went in.

00:36:36Um...

00:36:37But then...

00:36:38I've only predicted a grade three and she says she maps.

00:36:41It's not that complicated.

00:36:43Let's get that three up to a four.

00:36:46Rather than making Father Christmas travel to every household,

00:36:49the trick is to make every household travel to him.

00:36:54What is she doing?

00:36:56Who keeps a rug in the blue of her car?

00:36:59Now, imagine that this rug represents space and time,

00:37:02but all smooshed together.

00:37:04And it's running from one end of a room...

00:37:09...all the way to the other.

00:37:10Would you like to step inside the room?

00:37:12Ah, classic.

00:37:13She wants to roll up a body and dump it in the canal.

00:37:16Now, conventionally, it would take a number of steps to get from one end to the other.

00:37:20But imagine if we could squish up a concertina space and time in front of you.

00:37:25Like this.

00:37:30Okay, good.

00:37:31False alarm.

00:37:32Teacher's got to teach.

00:37:34So now, you can step from one end of the room to the other in a single step.

00:37:47And if I even date space and time behind you, like this...

00:37:54...you've miraculously got from one end to the other.

00:37:57Wow.

00:37:59That actually makes sense.

00:38:08Well...

00:38:10You can relax.

00:38:11He doesn't know anything.

00:38:13In fact, I'm not even sure he knows that.

00:38:16Good.

00:38:18We have to be careful.

00:38:20The belief is strong with this one.

00:38:27What?

00:38:32Alcubia.

00:38:33Alcubia Drive.

00:38:34That's sort of like a magic carpet thing.

00:38:36No.

00:38:37The carpet was just a teacher aid.

00:38:40I don't know.

00:38:41It may take my seats, I guess.

00:38:42Oh, pizza!

00:38:56Oh!

00:38:57Pizza!

00:38:58Oh, wait a minute!

00:38:59Yeah?

00:39:00When did you order pizza?

00:39:01Well, no, I didn't.

00:39:03So what are you doing?

00:39:05What's the point of having all this security

00:39:07if you've just got to open the door to anyone with a pizza?

00:39:10Well, I like pizza and I also haven't eaten since breakfast, so...

00:39:14Oi!

00:39:16That's weird.

00:39:18He's opened up the pizza box but there isn't any pizza in it.

00:39:20There's just words.

00:39:22What do you mean?

00:39:24What words?

00:39:25It says,

00:39:26I am here on behalf of Jason Foxy Fock.

00:39:40Why not?

00:39:42Sorry.

00:39:43Sorry.

00:39:44My bad.

00:39:45What?

00:39:46I'm trying.

00:40:01He's telling me we don't have long, but you can talk to Foxy...

00:40:06through me.

00:40:07Are you psychic?

00:40:09No. I have a microphone and a camera.

00:40:11Foxy can see us and hear us.

00:40:14Hello, Chris. Hello, Holly. It's Foxy here.

00:40:17I'm really sorry about the tight security, but I can't take no chances.

00:40:20Can't take no chances. They can't know where I am.

00:40:23Who's they?

00:40:24Father Christmas.

00:40:25And his organisation.

00:40:26Shall we feel?

00:40:27Yeah, mate. As real as I am standing right here.

00:40:31What do they want?

00:40:32Get that photograph out.

00:40:37That was taken at a Channel 4 Christmas party.

00:40:44I thought it was going to be well boring, stuck with them lot all night.

00:40:48But it turns out we had a lot in common.

00:40:50Like ideas about Father Christmas and how it is he can do what he does.

00:40:54You know, theoretically.

00:40:56We really got into it and was going to organise a convention and everything.

00:41:00And call it the science of Christmas.

00:41:02And use it to get children interested in the subject from a young age.

00:41:06Inspire future generations.

00:41:08We had publishers interested.

00:41:10And television people.

00:41:11There was even talk of a podcast.

00:41:13What happened?

00:41:14Father Christmas.

00:41:15He shut us down.

00:41:16I'm not saying he did it personally.

00:41:18But he was definitely involved.

00:41:20What I think did you have?

00:41:21Active camouflage.

00:41:23It's what the big man uses to make himself invisible.

00:41:25His red jumpsuit is actually just an image of a red jumpsuit projected onto a flexible wearable OLED screen.

00:41:32Hidden cameras constantly film what is around him and then project that on the screen on the opposite side.

00:41:38It's like he's wrapped in a live feed of his immediate environment.

00:41:41It's the same technology James Bond used to make his car invisible in Die Another Day.

00:41:46Why didn't you see it?

00:41:48Exactly.

00:41:49Sorry.

00:41:50That's all I have time for.

00:41:52I've got to take a cake out of the oven.

00:41:54Wait.

00:41:58How do I find Father Christmas?

00:42:00You don't, soldier.

00:42:02That's what I've been trying to tell you.

00:42:04Steer clear.

00:42:05You don't want to get mixed up in this.

00:42:07You don't want to get mixed up in this.

00:42:32Luke, you will-

00:42:33Door!

00:42:41I'll get it!

00:42:42Straight in the door.

00:42:44Pause is locked in there.

00:42:58It's Georgina.

00:42:59That Miss Bailey.

00:43:00How do I look?

00:43:02I've got a gear and headlights.

00:43:04Come in!

00:43:05Take the holes with bells up holly, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:10Tis the season to be jolly, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:11Fill the meat cup, drain the barrel, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:12Fill the meat cup, drain the barrel, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:20Trail the ancient Christmas carol, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:22Follow me in merry measure, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:24Follow me in merry measure, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:27Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:29Trail the ancient Christmas carol, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:31Follow me in merry measure, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:33Trail the ancient Christmas carol, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:38Follow me in merry measure, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:44Fast away the old year passes, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:49Hail the lonely lads and lasses, fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.

00:43:56Lost away the old dear persons

00:44:00Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

00:44:04I can explain

00:44:26My letter to Father Christmas that I posted

00:44:29I know

00:44:29You know that it's a criminal offence to interfere with an envelope that is stamped and addressed

00:44:34I rescued it

00:44:36For what?

00:44:37Do you know what happens to letters addressed to Father Christmas?

00:44:40Well I know what's supposed to happen

00:44:42They get sent to Father Christmas

00:44:43So we know what presents to get

00:44:45They get shredded

00:44:46All of them

00:44:48They're put into a big machine that cuts them up into long thin strips

00:44:52Which are dumped into big red bins

00:44:55And then stuck on the back of an old blue lorry

00:44:57And taken to God knows where

00:44:58So you don't know where?

00:45:02I know it's not the North Pole

00:45:04How do you know?

00:45:04Because I do

00:45:05You don't

00:45:07You don't know

00:45:08You just don't want to believe

00:45:10You always think that everything is

00:45:12Is destined to end in disaster

00:45:14Not everything is destined to end in disaster

00:45:30Hi this is Georgina

00:45:39I can't come to the phone right now

00:45:40So please leave a message

00:45:41Hey Georgina

00:45:44It's Nick here

00:45:45Nick

00:45:46Massey

00:45:47From the house opposite

00:45:49Well it's not really opposite is it

00:45:51It's more sort of

00:45:52I'd say

00:45:53Ten o'clock

00:45:54It's definitely across the street

00:45:56It doesn't matter

00:45:57I'm just

00:45:58Returning your call basically

00:46:01From April

00:46:03I think it was

00:46:04Just to say

00:46:06That

00:46:07Yes

00:46:08I'd really like to go for that drink

00:46:11If the offer still stands

00:46:13And

00:46:15That I'm free tonight

00:46:17If that's not too rash

00:46:19Nailed it

00:46:26So letters to Father Christmas

00:46:28Are shredded

00:46:28Put on that blue lorry

00:46:30And then taken where?

00:46:31That's the reason we're following the blue lorry

00:46:33Hiya

00:46:49Yeah

00:46:49Tonight

00:46:50Sounds great

00:46:52I think I can get to you for about

00:46:54Eight o'clock

00:46:55So

00:46:56Yeah

00:46:57I guess I'll

00:46:58See you then

00:46:59Bye

00:47:03Still got it

00:47:06Oh

00:47:26Chris

00:47:27Before I forget

00:47:28There you go

00:47:30You got me a new show card

00:47:33No

00:47:34That's just the one I swallowed

00:47:36You wait here

00:47:39Where are you going?

00:47:41I have an idea

00:47:42Knock knock

00:47:50Hey

00:47:51Can I help you?

00:47:53I don't know

00:47:53Can you?

00:47:56Well not unless you tell me what it is you want

00:47:57No

00:47:58I'm

00:48:01I'm here to see Father Christmas

00:48:05Oh yeah

00:48:07Got an appointment?

00:48:11Do I need one?

00:48:14Does this look like the North Pole to you?

00:48:16Hmm?

00:48:17I don't know

00:48:18I've never been

00:48:19Yeah

00:48:19Well

00:48:20It's not

00:48:21It's Milton Keynes

00:48:23Now clear off

00:48:25Fair enough

00:48:25Yep

00:48:26He is definitely in there

00:48:41Father Christmas

00:48:42How do you know?

00:48:45Women's institution

00:48:46Chris

00:48:47What now?

00:48:49Plan B

00:48:50No Kraft

00:48:59No problem

00:49:00No problem

00:49:01No problem

00:49:05No problem

00:49:10Are you sure this is going to work?

00:49:39I don't look anything like a security guard.

00:49:42Yeah, because you haven't put the hat on yet.

00:49:51I know you think you've done this before,

00:49:53but I suppose the question is, how many times?

00:49:57I really don't know. It's not like I can count.

00:49:59Like, less than a hundred more than once.

00:50:02You mean twice?

00:50:03Well, you know what they say, but I'm lucky.

00:50:05The first two times failed.

00:50:08Guys, now is really not the time for second thoughts, okay?

00:50:11Did you want to find out if Father Christmas is real or not?

00:50:13Well, yeah, but...

00:50:15Good, because there is a very small chance

00:50:17that he is on the other side of that wall.

00:50:19A very small chance? You'd say definitely.

00:50:21Definitely a very small chance.

00:50:23Now, you just remember what I told you, yeah?

00:50:25Tuck and roll.

00:50:27You didn't tell me that.

00:50:29Come on, I tuck and roll.

00:50:31Okay, okay.

00:50:32Tuck and roll.

00:50:33Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:50:34Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:50:40Aim for the bitters.

00:50:42Tuck and roll.

00:50:44Tuck and roll.

00:50:45I got it.

00:50:46I got it.

00:50:47I got it.

00:50:48Huh.

00:51:05Chris?

00:51:06Uh...

00:51:07Yeah...

00:51:08It works.

00:51:17Stay right where you are!

00:51:19Oh, I'm so sorry, mate.

00:51:35I didn't realise you were one of us.

00:51:39Oh, yeah.

00:51:40Yeah, no, I am.

00:51:41Definitely.

00:51:46Hang on.

00:51:47I don't recognise you.

00:51:51Well, you must be new.

00:51:54Huh.

00:51:55That's right.

00:51:56Yeah, yeah, I am.

00:51:57I just, um...

00:51:58Just trying to try again.

00:52:00Well, then how come you have a different uniform?

00:52:05Well, it must be from a different branch.

00:52:07Go on, then.

00:52:08Let's have a cup of tea.

00:52:09I'll introduce you to the crazy gang.

00:52:17Oh, no.

00:52:18I'll call Nicholas.

00:52:19I'll call Nicholas.

00:52:20I tried to talk him out of it.

00:52:21I swear.

00:52:22I really did.

00:52:23I really...

00:52:24Are you all right?

00:52:25Hi.

00:52:26But he just...

00:52:27He wouldn't listen.

00:52:28He wouldn't listen.

00:52:29Holly, he said.

00:52:30That is very mature and incredibly level-headed advice.

00:52:32But I will...

00:52:33But I will fundamentally ignore it.

00:52:34Holly, Holly, slow down.

00:52:36What are you talking about?

00:52:37Where is Chris?

00:52:38Millen Keynes?

00:52:39I don't know what I'm going to do.

00:52:41I'm out of ideas.

00:52:42I mean, he's 16 years old and he still believes in Father Christmas.

00:52:45I think that's good.

00:52:46No, I don't.

00:52:47I think that's sad.

00:52:49I'm pathetic.

00:52:51He's becoming more and more like his dad each day.

00:52:53I don't know what I'm going to be.

00:52:55I don't know.

00:52:56I don't know what I'm going to do.

00:52:57What I'm going to be doing.

00:52:58I'm going to be doing a party of Christmas.

00:52:59I don't know.

00:53:00I don't know.

00:53:01If you think of both, I'm going to be doing a party of Christmas.

00:53:03That's the reasons why O God is...

00:53:05And it's not a party of Christmas.

00:53:06But you'll lose your money.

00:53:07each day at least he believes in something a lot of people don't I mean

00:53:13I don't know I'm his parent you are I am his teacher what I see is a boy who's

00:53:20bright and curious and tenacious and who shows initiative those are all good

00:53:27qualities thank you and thanks for coming tonight this wasn't really what I had

00:53:37in mind for our first day listen up everyone this is Chris you just

00:53:43transferred in Chris this is Danny well you before swinging that's Frank I

00:53:51didn't know we had an office in Sweden I wouldn't tell us if they did you got

00:53:56that right Angela come on then I'll show you around the kitchen so that's Robbo

00:54:02big-gen and tea bag cup of tea Chris

00:54:07no no no no children I need a girlfriend first

00:54:13no no no no children I need a girlfriend first

00:54:26oh sorry Chris go ahead this is good talk over

00:54:31yeah you haven't seen anyone you're not supposed to on your rounds have you

00:54:35over no what kind over

00:54:38I've got a gentleman here this is a lad trump leaned over the back wall earlier on tonight

00:54:42over no sorry

00:54:45it's the toilet oh it's just out there second on the left

00:54:57good kid

00:55:03settling in very nicely

00:55:17good kid

00:55:30where is he

00:55:31good kid

00:55:47good kid

00:55:52good

00:55:54good

00:59:12You're welcome.

00:59:14This is a black nando's card.

00:59:16All you want for Christmas is for your dad to believe in Father Christmas.

00:59:20He doesn't think to exist.

00:59:24Tell me, Chris. It is Chris, isn't it?

00:59:27Have you, uh...

00:59:30Have you ever seen a magic trick?

00:59:41Were you amazed?

00:59:44I was.

00:59:45What do you think would have happened

00:59:50if the magician had explained the trick to you first?

00:59:53It wouldn't feel like magic.

00:59:57Well, that's the approach we like to take here.

01:00:01Truth is, it helps to have people like your dad out there,

01:00:04the sceptics and non-believers.

01:00:06It makes it more special for the children and those that do believe.

01:00:10And that's the most important thing, wouldn't you agree?

01:00:13Unfortunately, it's getting harder and harder to amaze people.

01:00:18A hundred years ago, the science I had,

01:00:20it was a thousand years ahead of anyone.

01:00:23A decade ago, only a century,

01:00:25and now it's getting closer.

01:00:27The gap is closing fast.

01:00:30The inexorable march of progress.

01:00:31Those people in the photograph,

01:00:34I'm sure they had good intentions,

01:00:37but they were getting dangerously close to the truth.

01:00:40And that would have ruined Christmas for an awful lot of people.

01:00:44But my dad had to step in.

01:00:46Now, I understand

01:00:47that you want to prove to your dad that I'm real

01:00:52and that you were right,

01:00:53but I need to ask you a favor.

01:01:00I need you to keep all of this a secret.

01:01:04You know, to preserve the magic for at least one more generation.

01:01:11Do you think you could do that for me?

01:01:16Well,

01:01:17I can't really say no to Father Christmas, can I?

01:01:20What can I get you instead?

01:01:27How about an air fryer?

01:01:28I've had a run on those.

01:01:32No.

01:01:34I know what I want.

01:01:36Oh.

01:01:50With your science teacher?

01:01:53No, I don't...

01:01:53No, not for me.

01:01:54Oh.

01:02:03Well.

01:02:07It's a little outside my remit,

01:02:09but

01:02:09I'll see what I can do.

01:02:12I don't know.

01:02:27I don't know.

01:02:29You do know that this is not about Father Christmas, don't you?

01:02:56For either of you.

01:03:24I wouldn't say this out loud, but I was really proud of the way you kept going back there.

01:03:34Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you showed real determination.

01:03:52She loved Christmas.

01:03:56Not as much as you, obviously.

01:04:00But it was definitely her favourite time of year.

01:04:06You know, I think part of the reason why you wanted to still believe in Father Christmas was because of that.

01:04:14Because Mum and Christmas are so closely associated, it's as if to believe in Father Christmas was to keep the memory of her alive.

01:04:28But you'll never forget her.

01:04:32She'll always be here.

01:04:36And we'll still have a great Christmas, won't we?

01:04:38Yeah.

01:04:40We'll open presents and pull crackers, put up decorations, cook a goose, pretend we like Christmas pudding.

01:04:48The works.

01:04:50I love you.

01:04:51I love you, son.

01:04:56Dad.

01:04:57Hmm?

01:04:58I also think that part of the reason that you didn't want me to believe in Father Christmas was because of Mum as well.

01:05:08Oh?

01:05:10Almost as if, I don't know, because Mum and Christmas are so closely associated that if I still believed in Father Christmas, then it would just be too hard for you to move on for the rest of your life.

01:05:33But you can.

01:05:34You're not going to forget her.

01:05:46That's an interesting call.

01:05:54Come on, mate.

01:05:55Come on, Dad.

01:06:04Come on.

01:06:06Oh, my God.

01:06:36Oh, my God.

01:07:06How on earth did you get up there?

01:07:13I don't know.

01:07:15It's a Christmas miracle.

01:07:17Yeah, well, as long as it wasn't that trampoline again.