Roast Chestnuts

Dec 27 2018 22 ep. 52 mins 53
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A podcast devoted to loving and exploring Christmas made-for-tv movies. Presented by Alan Maguire, Jeanne Sutton, a special guest every episode, and the spirit of Christmas.

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10: The Princess Switch (2018) with Patrick Freyne

Dec 27 2018 66 mins  
It's the final episode of season two! Irish Times writer Patrick Freyne returns to the podcast to talk with Alan and Jeanne about Netflix's big 2018 Christmas film, The Princess Switch. Netflix ran the Hallmark formula through their magic algorithms and made a super-charged Christmas movie.  Lonely, straight-laced baker Stacy travels to Belgravia to enter their big b

9: Enchanted Christmas (2017) with Just Jeanne and Alan

Dec 25 2018 47 mins  
Jeanne and Alan go guestless to talk about 2017's hotel renovation/dance recital Christmas combo Enchanted Christmas. Project manager Laura returns to her hometown to fix up The Enchanted Lodge, an abandoned hotel which used to host the big Christmas event in town. Laura's dancer ex is also back in town and he's performing at the Christmas event. Will Laura get the hotel finis

8: Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe (2018) with Valerie Loftus

Dec 20 2018 49 mins  
Writer Valerie Loftus joins Alan and Jeanne to talk about Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe, a 2018 Hallmark movie starring the Queen of Christmas, Lacey Chabert. It's not really based on Pride & Prejudice at all. Instead it's a heartwarming tale of an investment expert who goes home for Christmas to help her mother organise a charity event in their huge stately home. Her ol

7: You Can't Fight Christmas (2017) with Caroline O'Donoghue

Dec 13 2018 68 mins  
Writer Caroline O'Donoghue joins Jeanne and Alan to talk about 2017's You Can't Fight Christmas, the heartwarming tale of Leslie Major, an interior decorator working in the Chesterton Hotel, a neighbourhood landmark whose new owner wants to take away everything special about it. Can Leslie make the new owner Edmund fall in love with her AND the Chesterton before it's too late?

6: Coming Home For Christmas (2017) with Danny Wilson

Dec 06 2018 78 mins  
Totally Dublin music editor Danny Wilson joins Jeanne and Alan to talk about 2017's Coming Home For Christmas, the heartwarming tale of Lizzie Richfield, a woman who loves Christmas and takes a job as house manager in a big old mansion where everybody's in need of Christmas cheer. Will Lizzie thaw out this frosty old house and make two brothers fight over her? Maybe!  Com

5: Christmas Cupid (2010) with Fionnuala Jones

Nov 29 2018 58 mins  
Bandwagons host and Love Island expert Fionnuala Jones joins Alan and Jeanne to analyse 2010's Christmas Cupid, the heartwarming tale of a heartless career woman who gets visited by the ghost of her dead client and the ghosts of boyfriends past, present, and future. Will she turn her life around AND pull off the party of the Christmas season AND reconnect with the boyfriend sh

4: Christmas Festival Of Ice (2017) with Claire Beck

Nov 22 2018 58 mins  
DJ Claire Beck joins Jeanne and Alan to discuss 2017’s Christmas Festival Of Ice, the heartwarming tale of an aspiring lawyer who loves to sculpt ice on the side. When her town’s ice sculpting festival loses its funding she decides to raise the money herself. Will the mysterious Christmas tree seller become something more along the way? Hell. Yes. Christmas Festival Of Ice star

3: With Love, Christmas (2017) with Erin McGathy

Nov 15 2018 52 mins  
With Love, Christmas is the heartwarming tale of an advertising person who gets her crush in her office Secret Santa but also has to work with him on the big account AND they're up for the same promotion. Will there be a misunderstanding that threatens her happiness before she gets her happy ending? It's entirely possible.  With Love, Christmas was written by Marcy Holland and

2: The Mistletoe Inn (2017) with Ellen Tannam

Nov 08 2018 53 mins  
The Mistletoe Inn is the heartwarming tale of a jilted writer who goes to a writer's retreat to see if she has what it takes and finds love, acclaim, and herself along the way.  It stars Alicia Witt and David Alpay and we liked it a whole lot. The Mistletoe Inn was written by Michael Nourse based on the book by Richard Paul Evans and was directed by Alex Wright.  Our chos

1: The Christmas Train (2017) with Esther O'Moore Donohoe

Nov 01 2018 51 mins  
We're back! Esther O'Moore Donohoe of The 80% Podcast returns to help Alan and Jeanne figure out their feelings towards the 2017 Hallmark Hall Of Fame classic The Christmas Train, the heartwarming tale of a lonely journalist who bumps into the one who got away on a Christmas Train and all the heartwarming characters that populate your typical Christmas Train. This is a st