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This festive season Five Live Drive is looking for your help over Christmas

It's one of the staples of Christmas: the Queen's Christmas message but this year Five Live Drive would like you to send us your messages to play on the radio too. Tell us about your family's year, the ups and downs and your hopes for the future.

There are various ways that you can contribute. By telephone: you can leave a message on our phone line 08700 100 500 (and press option 5) or if you are feeling more ambitious and you have a microphone or webcam and broadband internet you can leave a message

If you have the means to record and edit audio you can email an mp3 to drive@bbc.co.uk There are some tips on recording mp3's here and . If you don't have audio editing software you could try this .

Keep your messages short (less than 2 minutes) and avoid too much politics. When you send us a message you are consenting to our playing it on the radio you can read the full disclaimer at the

I've slugged this entry Citizen Journalism, that might be a bit of a stretch, but it sounds like good fun I think.