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What Gavin and Stacey taught us about kindness, and how we need to take it into 2025
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Jemimah Wright2024-12-30T07:00:00
‘I am not talking about watering down the gospel, or not standing up to injustice, but in our day to day lives, let’s carry kindness into 2025,’ says Woman Alive deputy editor, Jemimah Wright
Did you watch the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special? The finale of the 2007 series apparently had over 12 million viewers on Christmas Day, but don’t worry, if you were not one of them, I won’t give any spoilers.
Writers and creators of the hit programme, James Cordon and Ruth Jones were recently interviewed about the series for mother and daughter, Jessie and Lennie Ware’s podcast Table Manners. Singer songwriter, Jessie Ware said her take-away from watching the series and finale is the kindness in it.
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