Advent Calendar Day 2: Making Christmas Possible
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Rose-Mary Sands is seen here interviewing some of the workers at a London toy factory who are busily engaged in making crackers.
In the summer of 1949, reporter Rose-Mary Sands from Woman's Hour went out with her microphone to investigate the trades that "have to prepare several months ahead for the Christmas season." She interviewed factory workers making crackers and cotton wool snowball makers - all while Britain was being hit by a heatwave.
Fast-forward 1997, the Food Programme also had a look at the workers making Christmas possible: "Brussel sprout pickers, turkey pluckers, caterers...", while in 2007 a satirical radio play imagined the lives of three supermarket workers "as they confront the fact that consumerism, from St Valentine's Day to Christmas, now controls the shape of their lives."
Cottonwood snowballs makers in August...
