export revenues to corporations current profit margins. but not everyone benefits from the booming business of. selling out of a country dead donkey you know how you know this starts december twenty ninth on g.w. . you. hello everybody here is your own max a lifestyle in today's show we'll put you in the mood for christmas of course let's see what we have lined up for you. christmas hits is going to top the u.k. single shots this season. christmas decorations can clone

treat bobo's from germany and. christmas grinch five celebrities who don't join in the flock. the u.k. christmas number one head will be announced this week it is the most successful song in the week before christmas and the one that tops the official u.k. charts on the friday before christmas for over forty years fans of eagerly awaited the results so let's take a look at the favorites this time around. ariana grande day has topped the u.k. charts for the last six weeks with her song thank you next and the accompanying music video is appropriately christmassy so the american singer stands a good chance of landing this year's number one christmas single in the u.k. . but veteran british pop star elton john could throw

a spanner in the works he's revived his old hit your song for a new t.v. commercial. it's true that. joe sparrow knows his way around the british music business the man from manchester works as a music blogger and manages young bands is something everyone is interested in everyone is still even if any generation they still want to know they're still interested in who is number one of course there is still excitement around being number one of christmas time and it is a big cultural event and it's in all the newspapers at the moment people are speculating who's going to be number one this year. jess glynne also has a chance of taking the top spot the british singer song thursday has been in the u.k. charts for nine weeks the week before christmas is a lucrative time for the u.k. music industry people buy and stream more songs during this week than at any other

time of year teens are particularly eager to support their favorite stars there's still a quite a strong interest from young friends so fourteen fifteen year old fans particularly big bosses like for example ariana grande they're really keen on making sure that their artist isn't number one. last year's number one christmas hit was perfect by ed sheeran these days the winner is determined not just by cd and record sales but also by which song was. downloaded and stream the most. but things were different in this band's heyday in one nine hundred seventy three slaying recorded the number one holiday hit with their song merry christmas everybody. the u.k.'s most popular band the beatles were also very successful at christmas the fab four landed four number one holiday hits.

but supergroups haven't always come out on top. in one thousand nine hundred three the number one christmas single was the novelty song mr blobby. generally regarded i was the worst song that has there has ever been at number one and it was chris was someone for that but i don't think it's a cork of british culture that. british t.v. talent show the x. factor has helped restore in first in the top christmas single competition the show's winners have often landed the number one christmas hit to. jamaican singer dalton harris this year's x. factor winner is trying to score with his cover of the power of law. but christmas isn't only about commerce so every year songs that raise money for and awareness about good causes are also in the running this year the gifted organs acquire comprised of organ donors and recipients hopes their song tomorrow will

highlight the urgent need for donor organs people want to feel like they're doing something good around christmas time that it's not just consumerism and. they want to actually have something that they like music and combine it with charity. the range for this year's christmas number one is still ongoing but music expert joan sparrow sees a clear favorite already i could be wrong and you can never tell but i think i'm going to ground they will get to number one this year i can't see anyone else reaching a sort of a one and even. excited to work even. with this t.v. i think she'll be able one however i am totally prepared to be completely wrong about that because you never know with the crispest of think you know whether it's a superstar an artist with a home advantage a song for charity the golden oldie or a new song will have to wait until december twenty first to know who will top the u.k. charts this christmas. and we stay on the topic of christmas and how express

even sounds like loss has something to say but first we start off the festive celebrations on ice. the world's biggest temporary covered ice rink has opened in paris it's the fourth year that skaters can enjoy some three thousand square metres of ice under the glass roof of the grandpa today. the rink is open to skaters from ten am to seven pm in the evening it's transformed into a frozen disco it will remain open until january the night. in revenue me finland santa claus is asking people to respect the environment to donate should be broadcast his traditional season's greeting to the world just before taking off in his sleigh the christmas village of revenue me is in left land

right on the arctic circle. thousands of people head to northern finland during the winter holidays there's lots to do in the run up to christmas the villages post office has to handle some thirty thousand letters a day. the christmas song silent night is celebrating its two hundredth anniversary several events are planned especially in austria where it was composed include. a musical insults borg silent night was sung for the first time on christmas eve eighteen nineteen in st nicholas church and over today it's one of the world's best known christmas songs in two thousand and eleven unesco listed it as an impenetrable cultural heritage. and saying in australia if you are a fan of classical music this kind of city trip should be perfect for you that's

book was the birth town of. the famous composer died at the age of thirty five but he left behind sixty symphonies and countless other pieces all around that spoke of there are marks museums and many other tract was dedicated to the city's most famous son. think of south park and most people will think of mozart in fact there is no escaping him when you're here he is everywhere in all manner of weird and wonderful manifestations from candies and postcards to dolls. but we want to see more of the real mozart our first stop is cafe tomaselli the oldest coffee house in salzburg and apparently a popular haunt of mozart's. nature is a music professor and conductor and an expert on the composer he knows about the other side of the musical genius. despite the intense focus he dedicated to his

composing mozart also had a crazy side he jumped up on tables and meola like a cat softly crazy sometimes i suppose it was to give him balance you can. feel like. mozart himself had a sweet tooth these famous chocolate covered bear his name but were invented a century after his death they're called. another obligatory stop in this coffee first maker of the original product they were created in one thousand nine hundred by a local confectioner poet first. unfortunately he failed to get them patented the cafe he founded still makes them by hand some three million a year. olds googles have a pistachio. enveloped in new get discounts if you can also read his history and often torched him the ball is put on the stick and dipped in chocolate talked. to

dry in. the tour of mozart's hometowns outspoken to news. is the city's most famous street it's where the composer was born that was in seven hundred fifty six but the apartment building is a lot older. as are the door bells they predate electricity and still work just fine. even if the person down below can't hear them. the most certain you see him in the house where the composer was born is one of australia's most popular museums. it's three stories are packed with treasures connected to mozart's life among the highlights is the violin he played as of wunderkind mozart was just five when he penned his first compositions here under the supervision of his father lee bolt. the beginning of a super early career. this is the

room mozart is said to have been born in. the display cases contain some of his personal effects including an apparently genuine lock of his hair. a trip back in time to the late eighteenth century and to the genesis of his music. mozart's compositions have great emotional depth which is passed on to both performers and listeners. too fast for anyone listening to mozart from japan to the antilles from hamburg to rome it's a special kind of choice is all you speak luke of and it goes to some wilton's was . no mozart themed tour would be complete without a visit dissolves poor cathedral. the infant mozart was baptized here in this very fond. guide professor valmy

also has a personal connection to mozart he lives in the building where the composers widow concerns are once lived. he sometimes gives tours and shows people around if you're lucky you might even get to go up on the terrace with its delightful views over the rooftops of zion spork. for many people the nine hundred twenty s. were not an easy decade with its widespread unemployment poverty and the lack of housing but maybe because of all that it was also a time of legendary parties and night clubs where people could forget all their problems for a while and feel free now one woman and how fans relive the rowing twenty's. mom fundamentally is a time traveler she loves and lives for nine hundred twenty fashions she designs

and solos the clothes herself. and i think the clothing style is quite special very extravagant tough a little androgynous yet also very feminine that's what i like about that era that . around fifteen years ago she began making clothes for others to. her hamburg shop is dedicated to women's fashions from the twenty's and ever since tom tech wars hit t.v. series babylon berlin set in the roaring twenty's first aired in twenty seventeen she's been inundated with customers. the team there's been so many more since the series was broadcast on some styles are sold out i mean what else have coughed of course we're happy about that but we can't keep up with the demand it's increased exponentially on feed. i. the constant scene in the most costly german t.v. series ever produced are mostly originals from the one nine hundred twenty s.

so. losing flapper dresses were factional as they were perfect for dancing. class. the charleston was all the rage after world war one people lived like there was no tomorrow women threw off their corsets and showed their knees what was revolutionary then is now retro and enjoying a renaissance with. our customers range from seventeen to seventy and they're all really different. but i can they come from really different walks of life there's the bar owner from santa polly and a lawyer from blanc in a.z. and also all kinds of women. has long been one of mahler's regular customers. she's come for a fitting for a new evening dress with all the trimmings. kalish

just a few years on here discovered her love for the one nine hundred twenty s. in her childhood. seem to. help. these schmidle enough i heard this song when i was four and i danced the charleston to it because i never my father would say dance this michonne fleisher i do the charleston and also right away i fell in love with twenty fashion students even as a teenager i'd wear marlene dietrich style pants to school i was a bit of a freak in those clothes i wore knickerbockers too and i loved them ever since yeah . mom the fun menace cuts are inspired by the one nine hundred twenty s. but adapted to modern day life along with evening wear she also makes pant suits suitable for the working women of today this one has this wants to wear one to the office the fitting takes a while because here it's not just about fashion it's also about

a feeling of things from the. kind spend lots of time here sometimes two or three hours high and then you're looking for a nice relaxing time to leave the hustle and bustle of everyday life at the door. and when they walk out the door in their twenty's style outfit they take this relaxed feeling and joie de vivre along with them. what images come to mind when you think of the typical german somebody who drives like a madman on the motorway spence's sundays polishing his car well maybe our new facebook series that's so german would show you might just be right. so you just. want to be a cartoonist may go for him and this pokes fun at the. typically germany be

a secret. so your weekly dose of german humor. i don't know but today you don't need your max facebook page. and now it's time for this week's serious home for christmas we're taking you on a tour through europe to discover the roots of some of our christmas traditions and we start of here in germany where the town of laotian in the state of tooling in was founded in fifteen ninety seven when to be ospital is sought permission from the governing to build a workshop it soon became a hotbed for glass production but it was the christmas ornaments that really put it on the map.

hearing the baubles are still blown by hand in the run up to christmas the fragile artworks can be seen wherever you go. the christmas baubles market intense place on the first two advent weekends visitors come from far and wide to buy the decorations. this is an old and by it's a feast for the eyes each holding is more beautiful than the last it was johan's really beautiful. many people prefer the handmade christmas ornaments and so they're still popular. there's a lot of competition but these remain very popular many customers want reassurance that they really are made in la. alongside vamos glass birds are also extremely popular. but the gnocchi through its income puts on traditional i remember when they were put under the christmas tree when we offered

by. all kinds like these in the nuts as well. as the friends tell you i think it's great here the snow adds to the lovely atmosphere. and your unusual items. which is. craftspeople here and all shined up and working with glass for over four hundred years the phillips grew up around the glass works christmas ornaments were first made here in the middle of the nineteenth century. as museum of glass art exhibits many old treasures exports began early in the nineteenth century many went to pennsylvania and the u.s. . yes but why do people here start making christmas ornaments do you think in that scenario legend has it that a pope has no apples or nuts on that's what people back then used to decorate the

tree. he couldn't afford to buy and so he made his own ornaments from. that and now it's out glass christmas want to came about right here in the. because. today there are five glass blowers here now are specialized in christmas ornaments misha hobbit on is one of them he still uses more snakes on his grandfather. michael's both feet my grandfather made many birds in his life so i'm leaving my mother always said that of all those birds were to wake up and fly away it would darken the sky over. first silver and an ammonia mixer put in the glass mold then the works are dried and. common and produces mainly birds but he has other motifs as well there's a huge variety of christmas ornaments on sale at the glass works and and they're

available all year round. but we've already found christmas bobo's these are the ones on the short list here for i'd like to send his best time to the glass which here a special i don't cost us to get these and she wanted something from. the world of us here. christmas is coming and the glass blowers of russia will help make it a season of life and good. well that's got you into the fast of spirits visit our website to let us know. how you like to spend christmas and what you really need to make it perfect send us a photo and don't forget to explain why you like to celebrate this way if your entry is chosen you could win and an exclusive funeral next watch well christmas

isn't everyone's cup of tea in every family ok group of friends there's always someone who doesn't look forward to it so time now for. five european celebrities you probably didn't know are not looking forward to christmas and. christmas season is something this musician certainly isn't excited about. he once said he'd be just fine with a bag of potato chips for christmas. and he'd be telling his young daughter the truth about santa in fifth place in our celebrity christmas grinch ranking comes no gallagher in fact it's hard to find anything the musician actually does like and so for gallagher christmas isn't a jolly time of year. but rather something to put on a. christmas presents. messy.

my young courtyard once told an interviewer her curious aversion to christmas presents used to drive her mom crazy she simply can't get excited about them. so she's in fourth place. or will still celebrate christmas for her son's sake she seems to like it more than she does. what do you give someone who already has everything well if it's karl lagerfeld the answer is nothing that's because he keeps to himself at this time of year. lagerfeld takes the third spot in our ranking at christmas the fashion designer stays home he doesn't have guests over he doesn't go out and. he enjoys his phone not ringing for a change. so silent night it is for karl lagerfeld. grant

plays the lead role in one of the world's best known christmas films it's bound to show up on t.v. over the holidays love actually is humorous take on christmas makes it an all time favorite. not only did it all. do the curse. but the british actor probably won't be watching it i wasn't there on our christmas grinch is hugh grant who loves traveling abroad during the festive season brandt often likes to travel with his dad ideally to a country where they don't celebrate christmas. gran says his dad's aversion to christmas must have rubbed off on him. irish musician bob geldof is also a major scrooge taking the top spot in our ranking gold off penned do they know it's christmas which shot to number one on the u.k. single charts in one thousand nine hundred eighty four. i.

don't know got numerous pop stars together to raise funds for ethiopia the song is still popular at this time of year but killed off once said that hearing this song over and over in supermarkets every christmas is sheer torture. i i i i. and now it's time to say good bye for now don't forget to keep up with the show on social media but until we meet again from the entire you know max team here and thanks for tuning in to let you could join us and hopefully we'll see you again tomorrow so by by. your own words this culture is far from charges to rows of people. don't bet on and try to keep your name are a static and at first very. in their hands paper is transformed into poetry the mother was

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