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Episode 132: Accio Christmas

Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 132: the final episode of 2025! I’m your hostwitch Bess and I hope you’re having a very cozy holiday season.

Today’s episode is dedicated to James, who put in an extra-special request for the Mudbloods Christmas trilogy. So while we’ll be starting off, as is tradition, with “A Very Severus Christmas,” we’re also going to share a full story time today.

But first, of course, we start the season with Muggle Mike’s “A Very Severus Christmas,” the only way to ring in the holidays.

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Episode 109: So Much Love

Hello magical friends, and welcome to the last episode of 2024! I’m your hostwitch Bess, and I am so proud of us this year. Look at everything we’ve achieved! And there’s more still to come. This really is the greatest community.

To celebrate, here’s some music! We’re starting, as is traditional, with “A Very Severus Christmas” by Muggle Mike.

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Episode 86: Last Bagmas


(I forgot to mention it in the episode, but…
The third volume of WZRD’s annual zine, The Wizard Rocker, is now available in the WZRD shop [https://www.etsy.com/shop/WZRDRadioPod]. Volumes 1 and 2 are back again as well! They’re only here for December, so grab ’em if you want ’em!)

Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 86 of WZRD Radio. I’m your hostwitch Bess, and I hope you’re having a lovely, stress-free holiday season so far.

We begin this episode, as we do every year, with the traditional playing of Muggle Mike’s “A Very Severus Christmas.”

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Episode 63: Flaming Christmas Puddings

Hello magical friends, and welcome to the last episode of 2022! I’m your hostwitch Bess, and I’m getting excited for all the bright celebrations that come at the end of the year. Here’s hoping my city hires the Weasley Twins for the end-of-year fireworks, yeah?

It’s our third December together, magical friends, and you know what that means!

Here’s “A Very Severus Christmas” by Muggle Mike.

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Episode 57: Leaving in a Blue Ford Anglia

Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 57 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch Bess, and today you get an extra song because I couldn’t decide between them. You lucky listener, you.

We’re kicking off this episode with everyone’s favorite goodie bag, Ludo Bagman and the Trash singing “Song Against Conventional Wizarding Transport.”

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Episode 48: Dream Quaffle

Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 48 of WZRD Radio. I’m your hostwitch Bess, and today I’m talking to a wizard rocker you probably already know and adore, Dream Quaffle!

But before we dig into what makes this magical being tick, let’s start with some music!

This is “Hagrid’s on the Lam” by Muggle Mike.

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Episode 36: Slytherin Weekend

Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 36 of WZRD Radio. I’m your hostwitch Bess, and I hope you’re all bracing yourselves, because this is the month that something always happens at Hogwarts. Trolls and mass murderers and all sorts of chaos.

On that cheerful thought, let’s get to the music!

Here’s Diagon Alley with “The Leaky Cauldron.”

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Episode 7: Dear Lucius

Transcript:

Hello magical friends and welcome to the seventh episode of WZRD Radio. I’m your hostwitch Bess and I don’t know about you, but I almost forgot that July is a pretty big month around these parts. This month we’re celebrating Harry and Neville’s 40th birthdays, so make sure you whip up a Molly Weasley-worthy cake, or at least raise a glass of butterbeer.

There’s a lot going on in our magical world and I can’t wait to dive into it with you, but first let’s play some music.

Starting with “Hagrid on the Lam” by Muggle Mike.

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