I watched the Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special on BBC1 on Christmas Day night while at my friend Alice's house. I didn't really want to; I'd never sat through any of the episodes that made this South Wales/Essex sitcom a national classic. I had caught snatches of it, and had not been impressed.
There were two reasons for my disdain.
Reason One: I was actually brought up in Barry, where the
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