Radvent calendar

Portmanteau word for one of the competitions - the successor to the previous year's rant in the kitchen - in which listeners could win a collection of James Bond DVDs (with runners-up prizes of CDs, posters, and a piece of chandelier from Tomorrow Never Dies) by identifying six individual rants within one long, edited Kermodian rant.

The six films involved were:

• A Good Year
• Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Lady In The Water
• The Da Vinci Code
• Get Rich Or Die Trying
• Zidane

As the winner was about to be announced, Simon revealed that the "radio tradition" would be to have made up the name of the winners so that they could keep the DVDs themselves, but that they would not do that, "unlike some other radio stations." His argument was somewhat undermined by the fact that the winning names he then read out included Suzanne Moriarty and Wolfgang Globke.