This is a bumper podcast, filled with festive goodness from the BMJ’s ever popular Christmas issue. We find out about “ghosts” on Mount Everest, why things don’t necessarily go better with coke, and investigate the medicinal uses of frankincense.

Also this Christmas, we have a video for you - was Dickens right about Oliver Twist’s diet? Find out in “Please, sir, I want some more“.

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