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Christmas Crackers
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Ho ho ho! Come with us on a Christmas tale of invention as we talk to the world’s only Christmas Cracker historian, Peter Kimpton of Norwich.
🎄Hear about Tom Smith the inventor of the Christmas Cracker
🎁Discover the strangest Christmas Cracker ever made
🧑🎄Learn what makes the “CRACK”!
Produced by Freddy Chick, senior producer is Charlotte Long
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