It helps, of course, that there's so much nostalgia out there for the show, a whimsical coming-of-age story set in medieval times that opened in 1972 and ran for five years.

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Business is also booming for commercial carol concerts in non-church settings, where a mince pie and nostalgia are as much the lure as harking the singing of herald angels.

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Much of her remaining support derives from nostalgia for her father, Indonesia's founding president, Sukarno.

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"The Next Day, " his 26th album, finds Bowie very much alive and vacillating between forward-looking restlessness and outright nostalgia.

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She exudes a nostalgia, invoking the innocence and order of the past, as much as her husband beckons to a liberating future.

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The modern Briton's nostalgia for buses with rounded lines, conductors, platforms and hand-cranked ticket machines has much to do with him.

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