What do atheists do at Christmas?

Next week, five exceptional people from different fields will be guest-editing the Today programme. One of them is the musician, Jarvis Cocker, and one of his ideas was to find out how atheists celebrate Christmas. So does Britain's most famous atheist, Richard Dawkins, eat turkey and open presents - or is 25 December a day like any other?

Click here to listen (NOTE: The audio at the beginning seems to jump to some loud music for about 5 seconds. It must be a glitch in their file):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7797000/7797077.stm

TAGGED: ATHEISM, INTERVIEWS, RICHARD DAWKINS


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