Episode 49
I believe in Father Christmas
W/C 19th December 2022
Aside from being the greatest story ever written, A Christmas Carol is written not in Chapters but in Staves.
This technique was employed by Dickens because it mimicked the traditional structure of Christmas carols, and as such was a bit of in-joke. He continued to play around with structure with his other Christmas writing, the Cricket on the Hearth was divided into 'chirps' and The Chimes was similarly set in 'quarters'.
In honour of that fact I have subdivided this festive edition of TFM into staves, each separated by a small snippet of festive audio rather than the normal day-of-the-week structure. There is no creative reason, or deep philosophical meaning, nothing other than the fact it is Christmas Eve and I can.
Stay safe.
Therapy For Me (or TFM as I now refer to it) is a bit of an audio curiosity. It started out as a mechanism for me to clear my head, with the hope that by saying stuff out loud it would act as a little bit of self-help. It's remains loose in style, fluid in terms of content and raw - it's a one take, press record and see what happens, affair.
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