Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,799 playable programmes from the BBC

Carols from King's

2014

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

The traditional celebration of Christmas from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge marks the sixtieth anniversary of the first programme being broadcast. Stephen Cleobury conducts the world-famous choir in glorious carols including In the Bleak Midwinter (Holst) and Stille Nacht and, as in 1954, the programme begins as a solo chorister sings the first verse of Once in Royal David's City. The story of the Nativity is told in the words of the King James Bible, through poetry by Christina Rossetti and Nathaniel Wanley and a letter from a soldier at the front during the first Christmas of the Great War in 1914. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More