I generally listen to podcasts for entertainment during long car journeys. A podcast is simply an audio file which you can listen to online on your PC, download to your smartphone, MP3 player etc.

Podcasts can last for a few minutes or hours and can be interviews, music, lectures etc with the convenience of listening to them on the move or at a time that suits you. Often you can subscribe to a series of podcasts, for example I am a fan of Friday night comedy on radio 4 but am not often near a radio at that time so I subscribe to the podcasts which means they are regularly downloaded to my itunes account and available to me.

Whatever your interest you are bound to find a podcast on that topic just do a online search, or you can look in the following directories, itunes or podcastdirectory.

Some of the festive podcasts I will be listening to this December are, but do let us know if you have any favourites

• Festive Phrases Advent Calander
• Guardian – Short Stories podcasts: 12 tales for christmas
• Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens