The story of the birth of the Christ Child told in the words of the Gospels, with Carols in the order of the story as sung in the Christian countries and communities of the world.
Carols began as dances, usually around the crib set in the nave of the church. The nave was the place of the people, and they could and did hold all manner of feasts there. The carol, then. is folk in origin, and few true carols were written in England after the 15th century. Germany already had splendid and ancient carols. But the spirit of the carol spread to every country in the world, and this programme includes carols from Fiji, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia. Scandinavia, and the Argentine. Reader of the Gospels HUGH BURDEN
Translations read by PETER WILLIAMS
Written and. produced by FRANCIS DILLON